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We didn't go to other people's houses.

Donald Sullivan Jr., Son of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

Transcript

Things were confusing growing up, in the fact that

my father never had any friends.

And I would see other kids

and their parents would have people over,

you know, maybe other parents, friends of theirs.

My dad didn't have friends.

We didn't go to other people's houses.

He coached all our teams, he had Reserves, worked,

but he didn't socialize with anyone else.

Kids, yes, he would coach kids, and he was great,

but I always wondered why we didn't go anywhere else,

why we didn't have any friends, why he didn't have any friends,

why him and Mom didn't go out with other people.

That kind of threw me, I didn't get it.

I didn't know, maybe, and I would rationalize it,

"Well, he just wanted to spend time with us."

And that was my rationalization,

and then you put the pieces together later on, and you realize

that he didn't want to associate with anyone else.

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