Wilt

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Originally Posted by Tonya

Those were also my thoughts too. You know, I meant to post that same kind of thing in my post, but I erased it to edit it I guess, and then forgot about the whole thing. Well anyway, like I was gonna say, Mabe Wilt did something in his past that was so awful that he couldin't forgive himself, still can't, and has been slipping further and further into insanity for years ever since, and his sanity growing worse. The poor sweethearted soul, mabe he is......cracked.....Yeah, that's what he is, he's cracked. Mentally disturbed. Actually, mentally disturbed sounds better, but cracked explains him just as well. I have a thought, mabe his injuries, if self inflicted, are an obvious cry for help, but he's just to scared to tell anyone about what is troubling him. You never know, there could be more than one reason of why he doesn't talk about his past. We ALL know that his past is to painful to talk about, and we've got the theory that when Wilt hurts himself that it's out of guilt because he possibly done something horrible in his past, or at least something HE thinks is horrible, that he just can't let it go. Those are two reason's of wich we thought of, now here's the other reason why he might not like to share his past with anyone, mabe it's because he's afraid that if he tells somebody what happend, IF HE's the one who done what he thought was horrible, then everybody will hate him, and everybody will abandon him. Or.......here's another thought. We DO know he has a past, and we don't know what happend to him, sooo, mabe something happend to him and he's afraid to tell anyone because they might not believe him. Like this case, a child gets robbed of their innocents, the abuser tells the child that if THEY tell, their family and everybody they know gets hurt or murdered. It could also be the possible case with Wilt. And when I say "robbed of innocents", I really do mean something like that, or a very simular situation, like threat of a different kind.

I seriously doubt that Wilt's injuries are self-inflicted, since they were obviously incurred a long time ago, and when the series started out, Wilt seemed to be pretty stable, emotionally. In fact, he was pretty laid-back and very difficult to "ruffle". You never saw him get so spazzed-out like he did in "Bus the Two of Us", or talk of "punishing" himself. People getting angry with him or things not going right seemed more or less like water off a duck's back to Wilt; he just took 'em in stride. Now, though, he seems very paranoid about making someone mad or upset, especially Frankie, and things get to him much more easily. I think that his fear of abandonment(phobia is more like it) has something to do with it, but WHY has this fear been triggered so powerfully now? You have to wonder what the catalyst has been to push Wilt in the direction he's going, emotionally, in recent episodes. I DO know that people who have experienced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder never completely get over it; it can recur if the person is put under enough stress or exposed to certain trigger situations, and for certain Wilt HAS experienced that at some point in his past. The key is finding out what has instigated this latest manifestation of PTSD, though I still believe that until Wilt is able to openly discuss the unpleasant aspects of his past, any respite he gets from that past is going to be short-lived.

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