"No, not without emotion. I feel things - quite acutely, I assure you - I simply can't express them. Dr. Huang and I didn't come to any resolutions regarding my family, so I suppose that may as well be where we pick up." At least this new doctor hadn't made any mention of the scarring welt across his throat, or the fact that he was supposed to be suffering from madness.
"I suppose my father's a much larger influence in my life than my sister," he said, settling back some and adopting a more relaxed manner. Still, he held himself as though they were chatting about the weather. "My sister and I didn't grow up together - she was the product of an affair of my father's. Though I suppose I can't call it an 'affair', he had divorced my mother years before." But that was what this place referred to it as, at least as far as he could tell from his visit with his father.
"I saw him, over the weekend. My father, I mean. He came to visit me. Apparently he's very upset with me that I'm in need of your institute's services. I think he takes it personally - if there's something wrong with me, it will reflect poorly on him. That's my father for you, though. He only sees things as how they relate to himself. I may be emotionally stunted, or however you'd like to describe my particular affliction, but my father is without empathy or morality. I don't know if any of this is in your notes, so please stop me if I'm simply rehashing things you're already aware of."
At least he seemed easy enough to talk to. And he knew others would consider him crazy, but it helped to talk to some stranger like this.
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"I suppose my father's a much larger influence in my life than my sister," he said, settling back some and adopting a more relaxed manner. Still, he held himself as though they were chatting about the weather. "My sister and I didn't grow up together - she was the product of an affair of my father's. Though I suppose I can't call it an 'affair', he had divorced my mother years before." But that was what this place referred to it as, at least as far as he could tell from his visit with his father.
"I saw him, over the weekend. My father, I mean. He came to visit me. Apparently he's very upset with me that I'm in need of your institute's services. I think he takes it personally - if there's something wrong with me, it will reflect poorly on him. That's my father for you, though. He only sees things as how they relate to himself. I may be emotionally stunted, or however you'd like to describe my particular affliction, but my father is without empathy or morality. I don't know if any of this is in your notes, so please stop me if I'm simply rehashing things you're already aware of."
At least he seemed easy enough to talk to. And he knew others would consider him crazy, but it helped to talk to some stranger like this.