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August 24, 2005, 1:00 pm PDT
My perception changed too...in a different way!
Quote From: hgquinnThis is the second time I've watched this show. When I first watched it, Susan's frowning face seemed angry, closed and hostile, to me. Now that I'm seeing it for the second time, I see it's mostly hurt and scared, with anger surfacing when Susan's former classmate denies remembering bullying Susan. When the former classmate lies like that, she's again viticmizing Susan, trying to convince the audience and Dr. Phil (at Susan's expense) that Susan was too sensitive, paranoid, or remembers wrong. No wonder Susan gets angry, as this woman is still playing the same game, it's just more adult and subtle now!
Anyway, it's interesting how my perspective changed. Hurt and fear can look a lot like hostility, on the surface. I know a lot of people perceive me as hostile and arrogant, but what I usually am is hurt and afraid! This too is my second time watching this show. My perception also changed, but not in how I viewed Susan, but how I saw E.J. When I saw it the first time, I had an inkling that E.J. was lying, but I did not get to see their entire segment. After watching it today, it was clear to me that she was lying about not remembering Susan-she may be trying to save face for her family and children. She made a comment the she and her friends were all at the 10 yr reunion and didn't remember Susan and at the 20 yr reunion and didn't remember Susan. This episode can't be more than a yr old so how would she have even remembered someone then that she now claims to have no recollection of. Also, the way she was stuttering and fumbling on her words and evading direct answers to Dr. Phil's ?s stood out in a way they hadn't the first time I saw it.
Regardless, Susan does have to get over this; it seems like she is attaching this situation with having her baby torn from her arms at 15 yrs old. I don't think this bullying would have affected her so badly had it not been for the pregnancy. I think this cruel group would have still tried to bully her because of jeolousy because she was a pretty girl, but her being pregnant actually gave them something to bully her for.
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