Is it normal that my son's behavior is disturbing?
My son is occasionally compelled to act in ways that I find troublesome, and I don't know why he does any of this. I am a good father from a small, comfortable town in Texas who provides his son with a solid middle-class lifestyle and Methodist values. This has not stopped me from walking in on my son listening to recordings of people with obvious digestive disorders, or doing some other strange ritual such as kissing a mannequin's severed head or dancing with the dog (I blame the boy's mother for some of this; do you know they've got amphibians having relations with swine on that PBS show she lets him watch? Ughh!).
The boy also tells me that he has no interest emulating me and selling clean-burning fuel to the people of this town - where does he think the money that has kept him so well-fed over the years comes from (I stress that the boy IS well-fed - he was a model for a plus-sized clothing company once). Instead, he has some absurd dream about traveling to NYC or, god forbid, Los Angeles to work as a comedian! Sometimes, I just want to yell at the top of my lungs, I tell you what.
That son of mine is simply not correct in his undertakings.