Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 174, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1988 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 31,1988

D©3T Abby: Freshman’s effortless fiction starting to sound like factual account

DEAR ABBY: I have a problem that’s a bit stranger than most. J am a female freshman at a small accredited liberal arts college. I get good grades and have many friends, but somehow that’s not enough. I must feel a need to gain special attention from my friends also their pity. So I concocted this story that I had been raped when a child. It worked beautifully my friends were supportive and especially kind because of my “terrible” childhood ordeal. I also used that story to get the attention of men. When I told them, they comforted me, and sometimes it led to a closer relationship. Last fall, my friends encouraged me to go into counseling to resolve my feelings of “guilt and low selfesteem.” Well, I went, and told my counselor the same story I had told

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my friends. So now I am lying to him, too. I tell the story about my “rape” so well that I am beginning to believe it myself. I don’t know why I’m writing to you about this. I’m not sure I want to change my ways. I guess I just wanted to tell someone, and there was no one else I could tell this to. FOREVER LYING

DEAR LYING: Obviously you really want to change your ways because you feel guilty. You are not alone. Many people spin some wild yarns in order to gain attention and garner pity. The danger lies in becoming such an accomplished liar, they confuse reality with fantasy. I suggest that you tell your counselor the truth. You need professional help to overcome this destructive habit. DEAR ABBY: You said you have never heard from readers who said they were glad they quit music lessons. May I be the first? When I was in elementary school in Brooklyn, my mother made me take saxophone and clarinet lessons. When I enrolled in New York University (1938), I was sent to a more advanced music teacher in Manhat-

tan. I still hated it. After three years of lessons with him, he said, “Please stop wasting my time and your money you will never be able to make a living playing either saxophone or clarinet.” I believed him. I sold my sax and clarinet to help pay my tuition in medical school (George Washington University). I wound up retiring in 1983 with the rank of professor of neurology, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minn. I’m glad I quit. At best I would have made a mediocre musician instead I was a pretty savvy neurologist. NORMAN GOLDSTEIN, M.D. (RETIRED) DEAR DR. GOLDSTEIN: I must have received at least 300 letters from readers who wanted to be “the first” to tell me they had quit taking music

lessons and never regretted it. Some related horror stories of how their mothers made them practice an extra half-hour as “punishment.” Others said their piano teachers would whack them on the hands if they didn’t hold their hands “right.” Conclusion: There are many people who have quit, with no regrets. DEAR ABBY: Some years ago, you published the name and address of a company that manufactured (or supplied) “false fannies.” Back then I didn’t anticipate needing this kind of product, but alas, my derriere has shrunk, and now when I wear slacks, I look straight as a board between my lower back and the backs of my thighs. Also, the pants do not fit me properly. If the company is still in business,

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please let me know how I can getCin touch with it. I really need help back there. FLAT IN THE BACK IN FLORIDA DEAR FLAT: Frederick’s of Hollywood carries a “rear-filler-outer” (false fanny), majde of sponge rubber or some material that feels (to the pinch) like “the real thing.” (They should be very popular in Italy.) ; Write to: Frederick’s of Hollywood, 6610 Hollywood Blvid., Hollywood, Calif. 90028, for more information. ** * ‘ Problems? Write to Abby. For a personal, unpublished reply, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Abby, P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, Calif. 90069. All correspondence is confidential.

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