Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:12 pm
Actually I was reasonably sure it was all an act before I was halfway through that first video. For one thing, I have seen genuinely and seriously disturbed people acting out and... well, it's hard to describe it but there is a different feel to it when *they* act out their anger. Scary, rather than funny, is the only way I can describe it.
Second, why is it that someone like this lets his tantrums be videotaped?
Also, I used to be in a dramatics club, and I have seen other students convincingly act out all sorts of strange things that they were not really feeling; I've done it myself. In fact (and I am embarrassed to say this) I once pretended I was having an epileptic fit to keep some big bully from beating up on me when I was in 8th grade; I was apparently quite convincing, but it was all a fake. So if *I* could do it, any really talented kid probably could do better. And from my (granted limited) experiences on stage, I am almost convinced that this kid was acting. At least in the few videos I sat through (I didn't see them all; four were quite enough).
That's my opinion, anyway.
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