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One of the main difficulties in coping with abusive parents is that it is often impossible to explain your motivations to others. I expressed to Dr. Cleve that I wanted to look for a research topic connected with engineering, and he was glad to assist me with this. But I never fully explained to him all of the restrictions that I was under, and I guess he must have been frustrated that I wasn’t as enthusiastic about many of his suggestions as I would have been if I didn’t have my parents’ reaction to them to consider.

Because I couldn’t find a way to disguise my research or to connect it to a topic that was acceptable to my parents, I was under a lot of stress while I carried it out. It’s very difficult to conduct scientific research unless one is excited about a topic, and it’s very difficult to be excited about a topic that causes one to experience physical and psychological pain. (I think even a masochist enjoys physical pain only because it gives him psychological pleasure.) My life in the Ph.D. program as a quantum computing researcher consisted of exactly the activities that my father had punished me so severely for in high school: … » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]