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Guttermouth's avatar

>> the youth paster

pastor

Rhyd Wildermuth's avatar

ugh thanks. Fixed!

Guttermouth's avatar

I promise I'm not missing the point of the essay, but Diana's situation sounds a lot like Tourette's.

Rhyd Wildermuth's avatar

Oh absolutely, looking back. We’d not yet heard of Tourette’s (this was 2002 or 2003, I think).

Guttermouth's avatar

Once when I was deeply, dangerously drunk after a night of clubbing, shortly before passing out on the sofa I apparently cautioned my now-husband in a very flat voice not to mistreat me or there would be various dire consequences, referring to myself in the third person ("she/her") all the while.

He has had to put up with so much weird shit.

Michael Smith's avatar

Ever known anybody with anorexia? That's enough to make you believe in demonic possession. The anorexia voice is even different from the ordinary voice -- deeper, gruffer, rougher.

Rhyd Wildermuth's avatar

Yeah. There is also something “in” a person addicted to things that you can hear.

Anne Barton's avatar

Confused here- how does a poor Appalachian kids end up in a South Florida church?

Rhyd Wildermuth's avatar

After my father and mother divorced, my mother moved us to Naples, Florida because my uncle lived there.

Jozseph Schultz's avatar

Holy Shit! I, uh...............Holy Shit!