Characteristics of Adult Children of Abuse — Roy’s Story
This is a 9’40” video-version of a presentation I gave to my AACA group. ‘AACA’ stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics. My mom was an alcoholic from when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk. I’ve made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend to take on, and to publicise the 13 characteristics that most of us tend to have. It’s released under a Creative Commons ‘Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share-Alike’ license. So please feel free to download it and hand it on to people who might need to know they’re not alone. Here are the details of the musicians whose work I’ve been privileged to include on the video. It’s all licensed under the same Creative Commons license I use, and I’m deeply grateful for that… o ‘Schyzophrénie extatique de l’autochtone’ by arnoldsrecords. Download from www.jamendo.com o ‘Lazy Sunday Morning’, ‘The Lonesome Death of Jonas Grumby’, ‘Shunned’, ‘Timestream Station’ by Derek R Audette. Download from DerekAudette.OttawaArts.Com o ‘Punk-o-Tronika’ by MAIS. Download from http o ‘Trip I – c’est l’heure’ by Miscere. Download from www.jamendo.com Most of the photos that didn’t come out of the family album are from stock.xchng at www.sxc.hu (I’m afraid I don’t recall the photographers. None of them require attribution in their Creative Commons licensing, so I simply saved them. I regret that. I’d prefer to acknowledge them. If you recognise any of the pics, please lemme know, and I’ll pop the names in …
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