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Re: Is Goth Genitic?
by Anonymous-Coward on Jul 23, 2001 - 10:46 AM
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I am very aware of all the psych implications. One of my degrees is a BS in clinical psych and did take a few grad calsses as well while working on a MA in cinema, so I sure have given all that concideration. The karmic line is no doubt there strongly, the thing that seems so strange to me is the way when we talk I will start and she finishes at times like with identical twins, that is what REALLY trips me out.
As far as how up tight the X was/is.... You have heard the expression about dragging a needle out of the rump.... Well a D-12 wouldn't stand a chance..... And the step dad is even worse I guess. Of course there is the tell a kid NO and that is the first thing that they do too, the rebillion thing. But the likeness goes SO deep. The Kewl thing to me is when she talks about the X and Step and she uses the word parents, it is almost spat out. When she calls me dad there is only friendship and kinship no raspy edge. It's really great in a lot of ways. We can be REAL friends, not the rocky relationship that parents and kids have at times. Funny I was adopted and just made contact and friends with my blood mother a year or so ago and we are closer already then her and the kids she raised..... Some ways I think we will be closer then we ever could have been otherwise. She already tells me things she would not dare talk to her 'parents' about and that is just kewl with me. Life sure throughs some strange thiings at one, but that keeps it interesting!
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Re: Is Goth Genitic?
by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com)
on Jul 23, 2001 - 06:26 PM
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I think genetics is right, but not the bare "decides what you look like" kind of genetics.
It is soo prevelant in world cultures for the children of the leaders to become leaders, to need to be leaders. Artists often beget artists (maybe this group of traits is recessive, it sure skipped me). the children of thinkers tend to be thinkers. the child born on the "wrong" side of the sheets, acts just like its siblings. twins, seperated at birth and both adopted, still act like thier blood parent, if the trait is strong.
I think that is really the point. If the trait is strong then it can be passed down undiluted. if it is weak, then, unless the other partner also has "it" in the right amounts, then it says half hidden. It shows as a predilication for velvet, or a subtle sense of humour, or the desire to start new cults for money. ok maybe that is jsut the people that I know...
anyways
My dad is goth, not the tatoo, vampire loving sort, but the poetry, read everything in site psuedo-intellectual sort. My younger brother, whom i hadnt seen in 7 or 8 years, wears alot of black, is painfully literate, and mopes with the best of them.
Now you could argue that my brother, being raised in a similar environment, is rebelling in a similar way. But the only thing that we have in common is the genes from our father.
I grew up in my mothers house and he in our fathers house.
From listening to my father talk about his older relatives, i get the feeling that my greatgrand mother would count as one of the family as well.
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