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Originally Posted by wolf
it wasn't just the boy's overwhelming naivete.
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Who knows what the background was to all this - boys emotional homelife, father's general state of mind, how this presented on a day-to-day basis. Sounds like the boy had a temporary mind flip as a result of finding himself in a situation he could not handle. The most unimportant, relatively trivial and essentially selfish thoughts that rushed into his mind being communicated.
The mind can play nasty tricks in moments of stress and take over from rational behaviour. Nothing so bad as this, but I can still recall how when I was 15, flying for the first time (yes, all right, they had commercial flights even that long ago!) and on a particularly bad flight. We hit an air pocket or something during an electrical storm and the plane dropped about a thousand feet. Stuff went everywhere. I was really s**t scared and my mind was telling me I had to get off that plane. Came to my senses when someone asked me why I had unbuckled my seat belt and was standing up to get out of my seat, my eyes set on the aircraft door. Spooky.