Louie Anderson (1) (1953–2022)
Auteur van Dear Dad: Letters from an Adult Child
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Louie Anderson is an actor and stand-up comedian, named by Comedy Central as "One of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time." He also created and produced the animated Emmy Award-winning Fox series Life with Louie, based on his childhood. Most recently, he won an Emmy for his costarring toon meer role on FX's Baskets, where he plays a character based on his mother. Hey Mom is his fourth book. toon minder
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The Wrong Guys 3 exemplaren
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- Anderson, Louie
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- Anderson, Louis Perry
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- 1953-03-24
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- 2022-01-21
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- St Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- #106,482
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Like I said, I’m an adult child; my mom’s an alcoholic. My dad’s larger-than-life, more vague in his instability; mom is more personal, more diagnosable. When that hyper-saccharine meter runs out, the angry drunk takes her place, you know. I guess most of the time she (over-)compensates.
This has had at least two important effects on me, one specific and one nonspecific. The general effect is that, since growing up school was my safe place and home was my unsafe place, I’ve subconsciously, permanently (?) divided my life into a safe-intellect sphere and an unsafe-relationships sphere. (Although I don’t study geometry, but basically other people.) Also, when I’m away from home in the late afternoon to early evening, I get this vague feeling of anxiety, related to this hidden idea like, ‘It’s time to go home from school now, but I don’t know what I’ll find at home when I get there.’ That’s an adult child—you go right back to that disempowered child place.
I don’t blame either of my parents for this, at least consciously; (although I do have kinda a hidden same-gender parent struggle with my dad, although I’d never willingly hurt him, you know). I just pray that one day my Higher Power, Jesus, will heal me completely, and until then, I’ll have interludes of peace and be able to live a (by my definition) productive, useful life.
…. In a forthcoming review (incidentally of a book by another Norwegian), I dwelt on the inner approval-seeking nun in me, my inappropriate self-assertion, grasping. I guess this book is the other side of the coin: peace. Louie reports having peace at his father’s grave; my relationship with my mother isn’t as set in stone as she’s fortunately still alive, but I guess I wouldn’t be myself if I didn’t see her as something more than a drunk, and the source of the “bad blood” in my veins!… (meer)