Comments by "Dennis Young" (@dennisyoung4631) on "The Vile Eye" channel.

@AgtX999 can confirm. Being disfigured (from birth) got me a lot of the wrong kind of attention. I’ve got my share of scars on my face and neck, and I suspect I’ve got a semi-permanent “thousand yard stare.” (Mostly due to a lifetime of harassment, bullying and abuse).
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Yup. Had a family member like this. Mother described him as 12 going on 35…. There was an awful lot of stuff that went clean over my head. I now know I was going as hard as I could to simply stay out of trouble, and much of what was happening was beyond my limited capacity to perceive. It was many years afterward when I learned in (small) part what had been happening.
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“…while plumbing its deaths…”
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From a slightly later time (1863-5), and on the other end of the country, written about in Dan Dequille’s book, “the big bonanza”: “No Irish need apply.” It was also spoken of in Twain’s “Roughing it.”
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“…Nihilism….” “Everything is meaningless….” (Ecclesiastes)
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@devriestown no, just real life. Born with Goldenhar Syndrome, bunch of plastic surgery operations when I was a preschooler (and a few later on - still have trouble from those years) grew up in a really bad home, and went through all kinds of trouble - the bulk of it due to things I had very little control over. There were a lot of disabilities that I learned I had later in life. Got scars everywhere, the bulk of them from surgery. (20 operations so far.)
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