Mike, I don’t have the right words. So I’ll just say get well soon. We’ll be excited to have you back, but take your time to recovery fully. Until then, I’ll be thinking of you as I type away on my mechanical keyboard (MX Blues, BTW, to annoy my coworkers).

An abused kid gets it from all sides. I can’t remember how many times people would tell me I should be grateful my dad was such a good dad. He adopted me when he married my mom, so I was even told to be grateful that my abuser “chose” me. When I cut contact, I was the bad guy. When I defended myself, I was crazy or…

Spalding County Sheriff Darrell Dix said in a Tuesday statement to news outlets that they wanted to arrange a reunion without sending Aubrey back into hiding, but their plan was spoiled by a family member who warned Aubrey.

The sister came out and talked about how the father had two families for a long time and both of their parents were physically and emotionally abusive and narcissists. If you look at pictures of him with his parents, he’s never smiling. The sister had told the author about this but asked that he not delve into it…

His sister wrote a book called The Wild Truth detailing the horrific abuse she and her brother Chris had to endure while living with their parents.

There’s an awful lot of people in these comments who obviously don’t know what it’s like to be afraid to go home, but still think they know what’s up. If I could have done what he did at his age, bet your ass I’d have done it. And I’d never speak to a single goddamn person who called me selfish for saving myself.

I’m willing to cut the mom a bit of slack, because of my own situation. My two middle kids didn’t want to believe that my ex molested their brother, so they told family court that they only wanted to live with him and never live with me, since I helped their brother press charges. This is because their father was…

This reminds me of the Chris McCandless (“Into the Wild”) story. Initially, there were so many questions about why an affluent kid would move to Alaska and try to live off of the land. Then, the real story emerged, and it was darker than anyone imagined. I’m afraid that might be the case here.

Yeah, it’s interesting that a family member chose to warn the kid that a forced reunion with the father was in the works. Something in the milk ain’t clean.

Well he lives with her now so he must not have too much of a problem with her. I wonder if the restrictions were about having no contact with his dad or certain family members connected to his dad.

Yup. A lot of people are trashing this kid, but, folks, some parents are not good.

I mean, selfish is an option, like most teenagers. Or he could have been fleeing a bad situation, and didn’t want to be returned there. Or he could have had mental health issues that prevented clear thinking on the matter. I am one to give the kid the benefit of the doubt on this one.

“According to an aunt on Carroll’s mother’s side, Michael—who had custody of Aubrey—ran a strict household and limited the amount of time he could spend with his friends. Michael told NBC News that he got into some trouble the weekend before he ran away, but that it “wasn’t that big a deal.”

WARNING! WARNING!…

Sounds to me like he ran away from an abusive father.

I admit, that has my thought this entire time... How was this ever ok?!

I haven’t followed her career either, but this also makes me very happy. I think I was in 7th grade when 90210 came out I just turned 40).

I don’t really understand why they had meetings in hotel rooms in the first place. Get a fucking office—it’s not like a production company can’t afford it.

Jesus fucking Christ

So, this lady was getting treatment BEFORE Goop started promoting it? As much as I think Goop is stupid, I don’t think it’s fair to blame them for this one.

My mom has MS and this therapy was recommended by her neurologist like 15 years ago.