Tom Glaser
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How do you learn?
It wasn't until much later I learned that that's not normal to have a mom who rages at you and calls you names and tells you how awful you are and uses profanity.
I had no idea.
I thought that was normal.
The school stuff...
No, there I knew that I was targeted.
Most people I could see were not treated that way.
So again, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame.
Me, and I thought I was to blame.
And again, in both cases, if I acted perfectly at home, and this is how I became...
I think I probably came into the world with a perfectionist tendency anyhow.
And then it got magnified, right?
If I'm perfect, maybe my mom won't explode.
And at schools too, if I hold my books in the right way, if I talk with a deeper voice, right?
If I do all these things, maybe people won't target me.
It didn't help.
None of those things.
Well, maybe they did a little, but I still got targeted.
I tried everything I could think of.