Reply #40: Yours was a typical story. I believe it completely. Normal = abnormal [View All]

[despairing optimist]

It sounds like my high school except for the coed part. The brothers were eccentric, some agonizing about their closeted sexuality while others sublimated their frustrations into obsessive-compulsive behaviors such as the one you related. We did get educated, but in the dysfunctional environment educated us too. I went off to an Ivy League university, glad to leave behind religion as much as I could. But you never get over the indoctrination. It's firmly implanted like another brain.