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...just start thinking about different crimes that I've seen in the news, or that I know about from my childhood. This was a few years before me, but there was a woman named Barbara Jane Mackle, who was an heiress who was kidnapped and buried alive in Duluth, Georgia, which is about 40 minutes from where I grew up. The kidnappers were ransoming her. The FBI finally found this woman, but she was trapped for two or three days, buried alive with a pipe. That's something that's always terrified me, just the idea of being buried alive...
...married at 22. In retrospect, that was a mistake. In a symbolic way, I stopped drawing School Daze: the last panel when I got married was "the end." I was putting away childhood things. I was putting away my dreams. That became obvious to me a few years later, when we had an alumni show at Steinmetz High School. My best buddy Jim Brophy and I wrote and performed in the alumni show. Doing the kinds of things I did in high school brought back to a conscious level what I had given...
...those separate personalities," says Joe Scroppo, a clinical psychologist and director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient's mental state, and then the patient--and therapist--begin to mistake the metaphor for reality...
Finally, to the relief of all, we meet Baby, who reveals that Oxnam was physically, verbally and sexually abused as a young child--the ultimate explanation for his later addictions and multiple identities. Indeed, experts in dissociative disorder believe that childhood abuse is often the reason behind multiple personalities. Says Smith: "When a child is in an unbearable situation, he or she can sometimes split off from that experience, leaving behind someone who's able to handle inhuman degrees of pain, and soon that part of the person's being takes on a personality of its own. Once that happens...
Savin-Williams opposes programs designed to change sexuality, but he has won admiration from some ex-gay proponents by writing that "sexuality develops gradually over the course of childhood." Gay identities also develop slowly. Even kids who publicly reveal same-sex attractions can be uncomfortable calling themselves gay; instead they say they are "polysexual" or "just attracted to the right person." Those vague labels sound like adolescent peregrinations that will eventually come around to "Yep, I'm gay." But Savin-Williams says many of the tomboys and flouncy guys we assume to be gay are in reality bisexual, incipiently transsexual...