Characteristics of Adult Children of Abuse -- Roy's Story
Channel: Roy Blumenthal
Date: 2007-05-20

This is a 9'40" video-version of a presentation I gave to my AACA group. 'AACA' stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics. 

My mom was an alcoholic from when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk.

I've made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend to take on, and to publicise the 13 characteristics that most of us tend to have.

It's released under a Creative Commons 'Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share-Alike' license. So please feel free to download it and hand it on to people who might need to know they're not alone.

Here are the details of the musicians whose work I've been privileged to include on the video. It's all licensed under the same Creative Commons license I use, and I'm deeply grateful for that...

o 'SchyzophrÃ©nie extatique de l'autochtone' by arnoldsrecords. 
Download from http://www.jamendo.com/

o 'Lazy Sunday Morning', 'The Lonesome Death of Jonas Grumby', 'Shunned', 'Timestream Station' by Derek R Audette. 
Download from http://DerekAudette.OttawaArts.Com

o 'Punk-o-Tronika' by MAIS. 
Download from http://www.jamendo.com/

o 'Trip I - c'est l'heure' by Miscere. 
Download from http://www.jamendo.com/

Most of the photos that didn't come out of the family album are from stock.xchng at http://www.sxc.hu 

(I'm afraid I don't recall the photographers. None of them require attribution in their Creative Commons licensing, so I simply saved them. I regret that. I'd prefer to acknowledge them. If you recognise any of the pics, please lemme know, and I'll pop the names in here.)

I apologise in advance for the poor microphone quality. I've done my best to clean up the audio, and the music certainly does aid in that process. But the mic problems were entirely my own... I had the input volume up way too high, so I was unaware that I was saturating the mic. Dammit.

I owe a debt of gratitude to Garr Reynolds for his site on effective presenting -- PRESENTATION ZEN. http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/

I can only hope that this presentation of mine reflects some of the insights I've learned from Garr.

Please let me know what you feel about this viddie.

Blue skies
love
Roy