"I am afraid that if I try, I just like, won't be able to handle it. Like it is one thing to don't do anything and fail. Like, you expect that to happen. But every time I try, I just fail like I didn't try. So why bother? Trying just makes me...nervous. Nervous that I going to run away like Dad," Anthony Jr. said. And everything he said was wrong. But it also made perfect sense.
"You aren't your father," I said.
"And when you ask me to do stuff," Anthony Jr. continued, "Like I am afraid of doing them. Because I know that Dad thought it was like... your fault that he couldn't handle stuff And I don't want to blame you for making me look like an i***t when I can't do anything. And I am afraid I will do something dumb like leave you alone. And there won't be anyone to care about you," he sa
