Originally Posted by Tony_Daniels:
“He's clearly dealing with a lot. It's a shame that some people here don't really often consider the human aspect of it. Austin by his own admission has been a complete ass to many people but sometimes pain makes us like that. On here people just see them as a character to be called "vile" or "bully" or "scum" depending on whatever latest highlight package they've seen.
It's one of the most disappointing things about the age of forums and social media, it's the dehumanisation of people and the rush to label everyone something or other based on selective highlights of a television show, as if they're all characters.
Yes Austin as an aggressive d*ckhead this evening but the man was in the diary room getting upset about pent-up pain in regards to his mother going to prison and his brother dying, and you come on here and see people insinuating that he was making it all up, that he wasn't upset or hurt at all. It really is unbelievable how some people lack any kind of empathy with human emotion.”
I really felt for him when he was talking about his mother, I never for one minute thought there was anything false about any of the raw emotion he was showing. He is obviously in pain.
I still don't think that it's right to take your own personal pain out on others though, even though that can be hard to control when you are hurting. He seems to be putting a lot of his feelings for his mother, or about his mother, onto Janice. Sure she must be really difficult to live with, but tonight he really said some unnecessary things to her - and the bad mother thing must be to do with his own experience with his mother rather than knowing whether Janice is or isn't a good mother.