Baskin son on why he won't reunite with parents...

[crystaldawn]

Originally Posted by TakeAWildGuess

https://open.substack.com/pub/jswb/p...droid&r=4g1ftg

I know you don't like posting but I'm glad you put this here. I still 100% believe your account of what happened and I hope that you are doing well.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

Here's the issue I have with how that is written. It's talking down to anyone who dares question anything, even though there is zero evidence.

Now.. I give SOME slack here, because.. The internet can be a bad place. I don't believe anyone here has been nasty in stating their beliefs/thoughts, but.. There's certain places.. <cough> Reddit <cough> that are.. FAR more.. Blunt? How about.. Just nasty about it?

And, I do get how.. Upsetting it could be to have everyone questioning you. But.. To your above points.. Explain. And.. Wouldn't you really want to see the parents who supposedly did all this be brought to justice?

The other thing.. "Abuse" is a very broad term. There' people out there that had luxurious upbringings and their parents 'abused' them by refusing to allow them to live at home and not have a job. Or they were 'abused' because the parents didn't show them enough love - in their minds. IIRC.. He never once in that article states what kind of abuse it was. In fact.. It's almost written in such a way as to imply it's sexual abuse without saying it. Which.. You do have to give some leeway.. Sometimes, people just block it out or it's too painful to revisit.. But.. you can write an article calling out the internet just fine?

I don't know who to believe, but i'm pretty sure we can't FULLY believe anyone.


Blindly accepting 'victim' statements.. Three words.. Duke Lacrosse Case.

If the parents are guilty then yes they deserve what they ought to get. I am always torn about how they'd have been looked into a lot and the other child wasn't taken away and they still adopted another one. It just makes me wonder how that could be possible. The Baskins are either clever geniuses or they are the victims here. I lean to the latter.

I can remember Jon posting something here once and it was a vague memory about how he walked into his parents room once as a kid and saw his mom lying on the bed looking up at the ceiling, almost in shock or something. And his dad was in the bathroom sort of just cleaning up or something (I am paraphrasing here). He said he was traumatized by it. Well............yeah. Your parents had just had sex! They maybe didn't notice you had walked in at the end and your mom was in "shock" because she probably had orgasmed. Like, as an adult I am surprised he can't figure that out that this is what he saw. Our kids would have seen that many times had we not locked the door. In fact, most kids would have seen it happen. Of course you don't want to see that, it is your parents! But your dad just did what husbands do to their wives. Nothing unusual. But he isn't the first kid to accidentally see something like that with his parents.

[Labonte18]

Originally Posted by Clockwork

If the parents are guilty then yes they deserve what they ought to get. I am always torn about how they'd have been looked into a lot and the other child wasn't taken away and they still adopted another one. It just makes me wonder how that could be possible. The Baskins are either clever geniuses or they are the victims here. I lean to the latter.

I can remember Jon posting something here once and it was a vague memory about how he walked into his parents room once as a kid and saw his mom lying on the bed looking up at the ceiling, almost in shock or something. And his dad was in the bathroom sort of just cleaning up or something (I am paraphrasing here). He said he was traumatized by it. Well............yeah. Your parents had just had sex! They maybe didn't notice you had walked in at the end and your mom was in "shock" because she probably had orgasmed. Like, as an adult I am surprised he can't figure that out that this is what he saw. Our kids would have seen that many times had we not locked the door. In fact, most kids would have seen it happen. Of course you don't want to see that, it is your parents! But your dad just did what husbands do to their wives. Nothing unusual. But he isn't the first kid to accidentally see something like that with his parents.

Just the thought of that probably is enough to 'traumatize' any of us. lol.

We all know how we got here, but we don't want to think about it.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Labonte18

Just the thought of that probably is enough to 'traumatize' any of us. lol.

We all know how we got here, but we don't want to think about it.

There can be those times when you realize as a parent you need to lock the door. Our oldest got up at an unusual time one night (bad dream or something) and walked into our room. He was groggy, probably 5 years old, we immediately through the blanket on us, but it was too late. My wife got him back to bed. In the morning she asked if he remembered waking up in the middle of the night. He did not and from then on we always made sure the door was locked. Let's just say if our son remembers what he saw when he walked in that night, it would be far more traumatizing than if he just saw the "after" effect which is what Jon saw.