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Jim Latrache

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
564 total appearances

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What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And if you are exposed to things that you're not good at continually, your self-esteem becomes lower and lower, and then you start to have low thoughts about yourself.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Yeah, I mean, after the boarding school, I went to a school home for boys.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And after that, I had some foster parents, yes.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Yeah.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So the thing was that this was not like they adopt you.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

It's just like you live with some new parents.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And this guy, he was actually the first person in my life I actually respected because he

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

My entire life, people have been yelling at me, being quite rough at me.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And here was a guy who actually saw everything in another perspective.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Because you have to understand, I think in Denmark around the 70s, it was illegal to hit kids in schools and in any kind of institutions.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

But in those homes, that rule was a little blurry.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

That guy I lived with, he used to be the headmasters of some really rough homes.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And he was quite pissed about that a lot of the staff didn't honor the new law.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And he was fed up about the briocracy because he actually wanted to do it differently.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So in his older years, he decided, fuck that.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

He bought a farm and he changed it into a place where he could have kids and try to do something good.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

No, it was because he never yelled at me.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

He actually showed me another way.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I mean, he actually treated me like a human being.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Is that because my ADHD stopped?