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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 656826" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Cedar, M has told me that when I feel cornered, extremely cornered, I get this way too, and I believe him. I have been so only a few times with him, but what it feels like is this: I will do anything to stop what is hurting me. I know what I am doing when I do it. And I could stop it, I think, but I do not want to.</p><p></p><p>M is the same. He would tell you so himself. Me, I may go for the jugular. In him it looks like extreme, immediate, relentless defensiveness that feels worse than an attack. </p><p></p><p>He and his older brother left home when M was 11.</p><p></p><p>They wandered deserts...were hungry and thirsty...hid in trees from snakes.</p><p></p><p>M stepped in to protect his mother from yet another beating. His father stomped on him with his boots and kicked the two boys out of their home forever.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes, it is a matter of the perspective you take on a thing.</p><p></p><p>You would not, would you, think of me as a snake?</p><p></p><p>When we are crazy in pain and in fear...and we are blind to what is coming at us. We strike. Only to stop it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 656826, member: 18958"] Cedar, M has told me that when I feel cornered, extremely cornered, I get this way too, and I believe him. I have been so only a few times with him, but what it feels like is this: I will do anything to stop what is hurting me. I know what I am doing when I do it. And I could stop it, I think, but I do not want to. M is the same. He would tell you so himself. Me, I may go for the jugular. In him it looks like extreme, immediate, relentless defensiveness that feels worse than an attack. He and his older brother left home when M was 11. They wandered deserts...were hungry and thirsty...hid in trees from snakes. M stepped in to protect his mother from yet another beating. His father stomped on him with his boots and kicked the two boys out of their home forever. Sometimes, it is a matter of the perspective you take on a thing. You would not, would you, think of me as a snake? When we are crazy in pain and in fear...and we are blind to what is coming at us. We strike. Only to stop it. [/QUOTE]
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