This is excellent, feels very real and very true to how Wilson's childhood might have been.
I find it interesting how many fans have arrived at the same conclusion I did about Wilson's mom being the source of a lot of his issues. It's something about the specific ways in which he's screwed up, isn't it? The hiding and people-pleasing and pretending; the reining in his anger until he blows up and throws a bottle through a window; it's the sort of things that women do in our culture because we're trained to be so Nice that we can't even see ourselves in the mirror. I guess I can't see Wilson having learned that behavior from his dad, and the fact that he has learned it so well suggests to me (as you have it here) that his dad was often, in one way or another, absent.
I wonder how much, if at all, House has ever thought about this.
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Date: 2011-06-16 04:04 pm (UTC)This is excellent, feels very real and very true to how Wilson's childhood might have been.
I find it interesting how many fans have arrived at the same conclusion I did about Wilson's mom being the source of a lot of his issues. It's something about the specific ways in which he's screwed up, isn't it? The hiding and people-pleasing and pretending; the reining in his anger until he blows up and throws a bottle through a window; it's the sort of things that women do in our culture because we're trained to be so Nice that we can't even see ourselves in the mirror. I guess I can't see Wilson having learned that behavior from his dad, and the fact that he has learned it so well suggests to me (as you have it here) that his dad was often, in one way or another, absent.
I wonder how much, if at all, House has ever thought about this.