Rosie's Tale And Childhood Schizophrenia

via Ace on Rosie's latest. I interned at a day care facility for a broad classification of so-called disturbed adolescents while in college. During group sessions, one young girl repeatedly told riveting tales of a very similar experience. The man would often sit outside of her window spending hours talking her into allowing him inside. It finally fell to one of her similarly disturbed classmates to point out that when at home she slept on the second floor, making most of the detailed accounts more than a bit implausible. I think "crazy" was the word the fellow student used to describe it. The social worker that ran the group just about fell out of her own window, they'd been making so much progress through the discussions, or something like that.

I won't go the easy route (and nasty) route about this rape story, except to say it sounds like an utter hallucination, and if your mom, your protector, isn't buying that "mystery man" is sneaking through your window every night to molest you, that's probably some pretty good evidence it was all in that bloated vat of bad chemicals you call a head.

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[rightwingprof]

Yeah, we have one of those here. She just last week confessed that she'd made the whole thing up -- the prosecutor is probably going to press charges.

[Name Withheld]

Very strange. My parents were divorced when I was young, dad moved out of state, never visited... blah, blah, blah... usual trust issues and feelings of vulnerability. All better now.

Anywho, I used to have DREAMS that a man was outside my window tapping on it and trying to talk his way in. I chalked it up then and now to feeling afraid without a man in the house. But I never thought they were anything more than dreams.

[Mikey NTH]

IIRC a similar fantasy happened in France in the late nineteenth century, and the girl was crazy, but her tales ruined several people. I think it was in Alsace-Lorraine. Been several years since I read about it.