428: What if your life became a movie? [Rebroadcast #315]
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This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Hi listeners. Today is episode six of our summer rebroadcast series. As we count down to the start of season sixteen on september twenty ninth, be sure to keep an eye on my substack, now called The End of the Known, for new and exclusive subscriber content. This new content includes a live conversation between me and Star Spider on Tuesday, September 22nd at 11 AM Pacific Time. Star was our guest for the fourth episode of our AI series, titled What If You Realized AI Was a Cult? Together we'll be reflecting on the AI series, her life experience, and the future of AI.
This live event is for paid Substack subscribers only. And if you tune in You'll be able to ask questions to Star and me live, guiding the discussion as we talk. So please become a paid subscriber to the Substack, called The End of the Known, for just five dollars a month during this rebroadcast series at witmissledine.substack.com. And join the Substack Conversation live on Tuesday, september twenty second, at eleven AM Pacific Time, two p.m. Eastern. And now the sixth episode of our ten episode summer rebroadcast series, originally airing as episode three hundred fifteen on april sixteenth, twenty twenty four. What if your life became a movie?
If I could truly be a healed person, a person at peace, a person who has learned from the journey, I would probably think that I was enough. That I was of great value to somebody out there, that I could be at peace every night when I go to sleep and not think, What have I made of my life? What have I done? Do I matter to anyone? Is anything of any significance?
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The problem with talking about my parents is that a lot of it is based in almost like a folklore. You don't really know who to believe. You know, that you'll hear one thing from my mom and another thing from my dad and another thing from my relatives. All I can really say that I know for sure about my dad is he grew up in Pasadena. He was valedictorian, prom king, super well liked, really popular. And then at some point when he was a teenager, he became what I'm assuming is schizophrenic. I don't actually know he was never really diagnosed, but um from what I can tell, like he definitely was extremely paranoid and he would have these episodes like every couple years where he'd decide that everybody was laying traps for him, like literally laying like scorpions under his doormat and and everybody around him was cooking meth and and then he'd kinda snap and he'd call you screaming at you or show up acting like a nut, trying to fight somebody.
And every once in a while when he would kinda go off, he'd disappear for a while. So he was kinda wild. I think maybe it got worse as he got older because it seemed like he was pretty functional. Uh he had jobs, he'd worked as an electrician, he was in a band, you know, they were kinda living like a Malibu party lifestyle. And you know, I think he was a little volatile and you know, when he met my mom they had this whirlwind relationship that ended basically with me. And then they were never really together after that. I definitely have a better sense of my mom's upbringing, just because she was the one that I I grew up with for the most part.
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