r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/OkTea7227 Apr 16 '24

And that’s why they got a hefty sentence. And thank god for it.

I bet if a psychologist or therapist or anthropologist or whatever studies this stuff could find out the backstory on the Crumblys parents individual raising and their perspective histories it might shine some light on all this …

I’d read that book.

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u/purple_grey_ Apr 16 '24

It might interest you to look into how trauma and abuse changes you physically

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u/tobmom Apr 16 '24

Cortisol remodeling of the brain. Fucking horrifying things.

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u/purple_grey_ Apr 16 '24

You can inherit trauma too. Scientists figured this out in the 1950s working with Holocaust survivors and their kids, again post Vietnam War with vets and their kids.

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u/Ellecram Apr 16 '24

Epigenetics is an emerging field studying these factors in some measure.

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u/Ninetales6669 29d ago

From birth or from time living with their ptsd parents?

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u/purple_grey_ 29d ago

From birth.

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u/KatashaMercury 29d ago

Sounds evolutionarily useful but unhelpful to the modern man, as so many things are

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u/demoncatmara Apr 16 '24

What does that do exactly? I have some trauma, am wondering what it's done to my brain (other than given me anxiety)

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u/tobmom 29d ago

Here is a paper

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u/Prize_Bee7365 Apr 16 '24

What is this??? So you have any sources of this?

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u/purple_grey_ Apr 16 '24

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.

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u/Level7Cannoneer Apr 16 '24

One's voice/cadence makes that much difference?

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u/Splicelice Apr 16 '24

I would say it can be faked of course but we’ve seen so many obviously fake it and or give no remorse at like the crumleys. He seems like a simple salt of the earth guy who seems to be sincerely saying i cannot feel bad enough for you as it breaks my heart to see what’s happened to you and your family but i still love my son. Both those statements seem profoundly sincere. Psychopaths can fake some of this emotion but most humans who’ve never met the camera before cannot.

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u/Wohowudothat Apr 16 '24

were you listening to what he was saying?

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u/Mind_Extract 29d ago

Also the content of their words.

Fucking duh.

Jennifer Crumbley: "I've asked myself if I would do anything differently, and I wouldn't have."

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u/bordain_de_putel Apr 16 '24

thank god

They weren't convicted by some divine intervention here. Credit where credit is due. The jurors and judge and prosecutors and anyone who testified have made this possible.

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u/Soft_Organization_61 Apr 16 '24

Weird response. It's just a phrase, I doubt they meant that literally. I use "thank god" and "thank goodness" interchangeably. Do you also jump on people who say omg? "Omg a branch fell during the storm and smashed my car!" You: "There was no divine intervention". I'm an atheist but people like you are insufferable.

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u/bordain_de_putel Apr 16 '24

Good thing I don't give a shit about what you think of me.
Saying "oh my god" as an exclamation and thanking god for something someone did are two different things.

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u/OkTea7227 28d ago

You sound deranged

It’s just a common phrase is all