txfz1 wrote:
Could be he was asd. I'm just going by the Jon K book, movie, and what little I read from his sister. The issue with his parents might be cpstd. The ability to walk away from family, the loner, no interest in materialists, different moral code from father, and self sufficient desire would be traits.
could be the moral of the story is avoid Alaska if you have cPTSD. (Some of the letters were pretty brutal, or maybe they just seemed brutal cuz of my cptsd? been about a decade since i read this stuff)
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The article about McCandless in Outside generated a large volume of mail, and not a few of the letters heaped opprobrium on McCandless – and on me, as well, the author of the story, for glorifying what some thought was a foolish, pointless death” (71). I wonder about the validity of this opinion; perhaps McCandless was a bit foolish – for even Krakauer says that he had a tendency to lack common sense at times – but I certainly do not believe that his death was pointless.
https://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/en ... ccandless/
21 Feb 2022, 9:39 pm
