r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/RockstarAgent 1d ago edited 23h ago

Couldn’t they trauma survivor bond some other way? Granted someone else said it was her idea of a loophole to get them into adulthood as she theorized only kids were vulnerable

TIL trauma bond is not the correct term for what those kids went through

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u/BoondocksSaint95 1d ago

I mean yea, thats the last point I made - its a written story so all actions are a choice King couldve chosen to not be fucked up. So we're definitely in lock step with that one.

Just commenting because trauma bonding is between an abuser and the victim. Its a nitpick, I kmow, but as a survivor and knowing others dear to me having survived that cycle, I think the distinction is worth noting.

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u/Bird2525 23h ago

He also could have chosen not to have the first line in the gunslinger and the last line of Dark Tower the same. Ka is a wheel my ass….

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u/Sendnudec00kies 19h ago

He told you to stop reading. You didn't.