She may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
hinky is a word on CSI!
I certainly thought she sounded strange too but am not much of a conspiracy theorist.
I took her tentative and slow manner of speaking to be indicative of the subject matter.
Sean asked some questions I thought might have been tough for her to anwer and Elizabeth conceded that at one point and said she didn't want to talk about something.
There is something a little off about putting a young victim like that under the spotlight. I didn't enjoy that segment of the show even though I have so much compassion for the Smart family and all they have been through.
Ditto here.
A long time aqo when I was in college I had a roommate who was an ex-moonie. His parents had snatched him from the moonies and had him "de-programmed". I knew him both before and after his moonie experience. He was not exactly "right" after being deprogrammed - every now and then he'd get a far away look in his eyes and I always thought he was wishing he was back in moonieland.
I listended to the radio interview yesterday. I'm not sure what to think. She does sound almost as if she is in denial about it. Refuses to talk about what happended. I realize people deal with things in different ways, but it seems to me to be unhealthy to just "wipe it from memory" like she said she is doing.
She is 18 now, and not very articulate, I'm sorry to say. Though, many girls or teens that age aren't either. She couldn't answer the simplist of questions. Maybe she was just nervous.
In any case, God bless her.
Who in blazes is Elizabeth Smart and why should I care about her?
She may be "slow" and her day may be weird.
But slow children of weird parent do not deserve to kidnapped and raped.
She may be "slow" and her DAD may be weird.
But slow children of weird parent do not deserve to kidnapped and raped.
Definitely.
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Do you remember the series of pictures and short pieces of video they used to continually show on the news shows when she was missing>
Of course there was the one with her playing the harp..... but remember the haunting short video (in black and white I think) where she was down on a beach, looked like it was around near dusk, and she and a couple of others were roasting marshmallows on home-made sticks. Now I'm no perv at all, but for a second or two she looked directly at the person who was filming, and it was one of the most beautiful "seductive" looking gazes I had ever seen in my life. It struck me as very odd. I must have seen that segment at least 30 times, and it always amazed me at how interesting she appeared.
Anyhow, I think somehow the whole thing seemed a little odd, I won't go so far as to say it was staged, but it was weird.
And I'd bet some day in the future that girl goes into the movie industry as an actress........... something of a Frances Farmer type, but hoping that she certainly ends up better than that poor girl (Jessica Lange played her brilliantly).
Do a search in the archives on Elizabeth Smart. You'll fit right in with several FReepers who thought the family was to blame, that she would runaway immediately after she was found because she really really wanted to be some old guys wife and was tired of the structure in her life. (BTW, I'm not one of those FReepers, I'm glad they found her, I'm glad she has been able to resume somewhat of a normal life, in spite of the fact that she was abducted, "married", and sexually abused.)
By this article from robjna how are you parents feeling if your child stutters or has some kind if speech impediment, or some other kind of learning disability is that an opening to judge another or mock or belittle?
I think this tells a lot in the homes where those children come from to taught and bully the strange child in school!