Baymule’s Journal

[fuzzi]

I'll skip the Better Living Through Chemistry.


I'm not knocking pharmaceuticals that can help. I did take a mild antidepressant for about a year during The Change, took the edges off the mood swings.

 

[Baymule]

I don’t want medication, I’d just like to know. I know I have quirks, but I like myself and my wacky ways. But for people who have struggled all their lives, it’s a revelation to find out that there is help. It only cost me 3 husbands who wanted me to act “normal” before BJ found me and thought I was perfect. LOL

@Finnie a new friend I met in jury duty told me he and his wife adopted a baby who is now 11 years old and ADHD. Caffeine affects him differently, it calms him down. An hour before bedtime he gets a cup of coffee and goes right off to sleep. It calms him down. Mountain Dew has caffeine and is also recommended to calm the brain down. You might try it. Can’t hurt.

 

[farmerjan]

Caffeine has never affected me... or kept me awake... I can drink Mt Dew and lay down and go right to sleep...

But I do alot better in the winter with a cup of hot cocoa and some amaretto... man, that puts me to sleep and I sleep good....

I cannot imagine having your brain going at warp speed all the time... I need physical activity and get tired enough, and then just go to sleep...

I feel for people who have some of those problems...

 

[Simpleterrier]

So this makes me think what is normal??? If you get tested and compared to normal what is it. Both genders are different and is nationality. Also the way you are raised. There is things I see in my self the is clearly my mom. Was I taught it or if I never knew her would I be the same ?? Look at kids who are adopted and how they are some times it's learned other times it's genetics. I add house numbers as I drive. If it's a 4 digit number I add them all together. Does that mean that I'm special and need to talk to some one. The more I see and the more I learn most everything is a sales pitch and or a scam. Drs are really bad with it. Sure let me diagnose you with this take this medicine oh by the way u don't know that I get $.30 of every$1.00. when you by this prescription. Or yes you need to come see me again and again and again. Just my thoughts. We all are different and surely have some medical/ mental issues. But then again what is the normal. I may not wanna be compared to the Normal people....

 

[Margali]

Things also tend to concentrate down the generations. Alijah and I both have borderline Aspergers / high functioning Autism behaviors. The issues are mild enough that we both managed to patch around them without help. Our eldest Alexander is firmly on Autism spectrum. He's needed help with social and executive functioning skills. They've improved but it's still a struggle. It's a common enough story in the nerd / engineer circles.

 

[drstratton]

Things also tend to concentrate down the generations. Alijah and I both have borderline Aspergers / high functioning Autism behaviors. The issues are mild enough that we both managed to patch around them without help. Our eldest Alexander is firmly on Autism spectrum. He's needed help with social and executive functioning skills. They've improved but it's still a struggle. It's a common enough story in the nerd / engineer circles.

We've often thought our oldest was on the spectrum. Definitely high functioning. Our two grandchildren from our youngest son are like your son. They are 5 1/2 & 2 1/2. I think almost everyone is on the spectrum at some level.

 

[Baymule]

My brain whirls like a windmill, sometimes I just can't shut down to sleep. All week I've been wide awake at 3:30, even though I could have slept until 5 and still been able to do morning chores and get to court on time. Then to sit in a chair all day, even with 10 minute breaks, has driven me straight up the wall.

@Simpleterrier you are right about inherited characteristics. My siblings are my half brother and sister, their father left our mother when she was pregnant with my brother. Many years later, they went looking for him and found 2 younger sisters and 1 brother. Their father died a few years earlier. My brother had many of the personality traits of his father and shared the same interests. He had never seen his father. They also found 2 older sisters and a brother 2 months older than my sister. Pappa was a rolling stone..... was married to two women at the same time.

 

[Weldman]

Windmills spin with wind, think of your brain running with the winds of change. When the wind doesn't blow, nothing is happening...

 

[Baymule]

The trial is over. We found the defendant guilty of Capital Murder, it took us 30 minutes. A few of the people wanted to read the transcripts of text messages between the defendant and his wife the day of the murders, they were then "for sure" in their own minds.

This was a twisted, sick, totally screwed up family dynamic. The gathering of evidence was thorough, down to strands of hair on a hairbrush and a toothbrush. There were no bodies, defendant Jacob and his wife Adeline, burned them in their front yard. They dumped ashes and dirt over 3 counties. The dummies could have dumped it in a river and there would have been nothing to test. Jacob kidnapped his mother with intent to murder her, chained her and put a ball gag in her mouth and held her in his and Adeline's "sex room" full of sadistic and masochist sex toys. He had sent Adeline and the kids to the Lufkin mall, he held his mother Karen for 5 hours, until they came back, then send Adeline to take the kids to a babysitter. It was said that Karen had molested Jacob when he was 9, using him for sex, also one of his older brothers. We the jury speculated that he probably raped his mother during this 5 hours, it was said that he had raped her a few years earlier, she told family, but not the law. He built this room for the purpose of keeping his mother prisoner for sex, and taking her monthly check. They lured her husband to their house, Jacob was hiding, as Clayton walked by, Jacob shot him in the back of the head. Then the two of them placed a plastic bag over Karen's head, Adeline tried to smother her with a pillow but was not strong enough, so she held Karen's legs while Jacob smothered his mother.

Karen certainly was not a good mother, but did not deserve what she got. She should have been reported years ago, but both boys kept quiet. Had they spoken up, she would have gone to prison, they could have gotten help and the outcome would have been vastly different.

We watched video of Jacob in Lowes in Lufkin buying large amounts of charcoal and lighter fluid. We saw pictures of the sex room, the portable building where they and the 3 kids, ages 14 to 5, slept, another portable building that was called Jacob's office, all were filthy, full of trash, and other crap. Places where you would not let your dog set foot in, just terrible environment for those kids, and the damage goes on to the now third generation. All I know about the kids is that they were picked up by CPS when Jacob and Adeline were arrested.

They burned the bodies, scraped up buckets of ashes and dirt, scraped up the bloody dirt where Clayton died and drove over 3 counties dumping it out. Cell phone tower pings showed their movements. We saw testimony of 4 different cell phone Forensic experts detailing texts, calls and where they went. We watched hours of interviews with Jacob and the sheriff, 3 different interviews, full of lies, each time getting a few more truths. It was Jacob that took the officers to the dump locations where they gathered up the dirt and ashes. No identification for Adeline could be found, brought to America when she was a small child, she had no documentation, her SS number belonged to someone else, ICE could not figure out who she even is. We watched hours of interviews with her, we did not see when she cut a deal with the state and got 40 years, then she will be deported. She even took one of Clayton's bones that had a metal pin in it, and put it in a blender trying to get the metal pin out.

The work done by our deputies was outstanding. They gathered boxes and boxes of evidence. Trinity county is a poor county, there is not labs to process such things. Evidence was sent to various places in the state to be processed. The buckets of dirt and ashes were the clincher, the damning evidence. most bone fragments were tiny, half the size of my little fingernail. The forensic expert had a bachlors, masters and doctorate degrees plus board certified and served on the board. She painstakingly sifted through 5 gallon buckets of dirt, ashes and trash to find evidence. She did find some bone fragments big enough to be tested for DNA. Both Karen's and Clayton's DNA was found, matched to the hairbrush and tooth brush. There were pictures of all the bone fragments found. Teeth. Teeth were found and processed. She had pictures and x-rays of each tooth. Dental records were found, none matched Clayton's, but Karen had LOTS of dental work. Crowns, root canals and one implant. We were shown the dental record x-ray of a tooth, then the matching tooth found in the bucket of dirt and ashes. one after another and another, maybe 10 to 15 teeth, This lady was smiling, she knew the value of her hours of work.

This all started as a wellness check when Clayton did not show up for work. His boss and coworkers were concerned. Deputies checked it out, Jacob and Adeline said they were out of town and they were taking care of their dogs. Boss called in the second day, Clayton and his wife were estranged, lived on same lot but in different travel trailers and getting a divorce. Deputies went back, started digging. Over the course of several days, they had enough suspicion to get a warrant to search the premises of both Karen and Clayton, also the premises of Jacob and Adeline. Jacob and Adeline had Karens bank card, which they said they were being paid to care for the dogs, they drew out $280 daily........ Evidence was gathered and the deputies went back a couple of days later and arrested Jacob and Adeline.

There was lots of experts in their field, many hours long videos, much testimony and details. Lies and more lies, trying to save their own selves, blaming each other, to sort through and come up with a conviction. Every single one of us agreed quickly, voted and convicted a murderer. The system does work. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but justice was done.

 

[Baymule]

Windmills spin with wind, think of your brain running with the winds of change. When the wind doesn't blow, nothing is happening...

Something is always happening.