If Aunt Brie failed to preserve the family lie, that they were perfect, she was punished

The Walsh parents apply an abusive level of control over their children and tell them their 'bad behavior' is the reason they were so 'strict' with them.

Stress about doing well at school, and being the best at everything I tried, and more than anything, modifying my behavior to keep the abusive situation at home under control, which meant trying to make my mother happy. I never talk about my childhood being "abusive," which it was. Outside the house, I tried to be perfect, but inside, I was always being punished.

Here is an excerpt of Aunt Brie's blog from September 11, 2014:

"You Look Like A Drag Queen Crying:" On Losing It At My Sisters Birthday Party

September 11, 2014

"Then like an idiot, I started hysterically crying. Once I started crying, I couldn't stop. It had nothing to do with the situation. It had to do with the private wound that exists in side of me suddenly opening up, and spilling out without me being able to control it.

This happens extraordinarily infrequently. The first time was in eighth grade. A teacher scolded me in class, and I started crying. I couldn't stop. I went into the bathroom, and locked myself in. I cried for three hours. The teacher felt terrible, but I tried to explain that it wasn't his fault. It was just that he punctured me, and all the internal pressure that had been building up was finally released. Stress about doing well at school, and being the best at everything I tried, and more than anything, modifying my behavior to keep the abusive situation at home under control, which meant trying to make my mother happy. I never talk about my childhood being "abusive," which it was. Outside the house, I tried to be perfect, but inside, I was always being punished.

'You guys don't understand' my sister said when I cried on a doorstep in chinatown last night. 'You don't understand the way we were raised with money. We were raised to fear losing it because my parents were always taking it away from us.'"

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