Cooper
Senior Member
But the story died there, it was not really picked up by SAL or Worms so it was probably true. In this case "abuse" would be from adults in some form.
I thought it was self-evident that Rob was picked on as a youngster. The baby brother, the fat kid, the dimwit. It explains a lot of his desire for attention and validation as an adult, even his (selective) capacity for empathy. He has bizarre ways of expressing those feelings, but that's probably because he's not very bright. He has spent so many years using his homegrown coping strategies by rote that they've become obsessions, or something like that. Lots of psychology to unpack with Rob Ford.