1972 - 1989
this is/was my brother kevin. we don’t really look anything alike, because he was adpoted. he killed himself when he was 17 (a little more than a month before his 18th birthday). he jumped to his death from the roof of his shrink’s 10 story medical building. a couple of years after kevin killed himself, his shrink, dr. white, was indicted for molesting boys at camp run by the california youth authority. kevin had asperger’s syndrome. we’ll never know if he was molested by dr. white, but it’s a pretty fair bet that he was. he was never able to talk about it though, because of the autism.
i miss my brother. i feel responsible for his death in the sense that i told my parents that he was depressed and suicidal. they didn’t do anything though, because dr. white had told them that they shouldn’t worry, autistic children don’t commit suicide.
it should have been me and not kevin. i think my parents would have been a lot happier if that were the case. they loved him. they needed him so much more than they ever needed me.
this is us when i was probably about 21 and he was 16, probably close to a year before he killed himself.
this is kevin and my mom at my grandma’s birthday party. he was probably about 11 or 12.
this is kev when he was 5 or 6. he was such a cute kid!
