Long Island Medium abusing kids now?

[AlaskaBushPilot]

What amuses me when I see that commercial of her talking to that kid, she says, "Your Father called you buddy", and the kid looks so amazed, but the fact is a lot of children get called buddy, so nothing so remarkable about that.

It is currently the most common nickname between father and son, headlining this New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/fashion/parents-choose-buddy-as-a-nickname-for-their-children.html

Like “sport” or “champ” of an earlier era, “buddy” has quietly evolved over the last 20 years into the go-to nickname for American parents, particularly fathers, looking to chum it up with their sons and daughters. How it got there is hard to say; good luck finding an adult who remembers his dad calling him buddy.

It says more about the audience than it does about her.

 

[Nay_Sayer]

It is most definitely psychological child abuse.

...for profit.

Sickening.

If I was in better shape there would be a StopLongIslandMedium.com up tonight.

I want to to throw all my money at this idea. Her 15 minutes of fame needed to end last week.

 

[tyr_13]

I watched this show, parts of three episodes with my family yesterday. I was running around doing laundry and so didn't see the entirety of any episode. However, it's just cold reading with the mistakes edited out. More than once my mother asked, "Well how did she know that?"

Every time I said, "he/she/they just told her that." She asks questions, and then repeats the answer with some little vague detail, and people forget they were the one to just answered the damn question. It's especially bad when she says something along the lines of, 'yeah she was yelling in my ear about that!' Well then why did you have to ask miss medium? Why didn't you just say? It makes my skin crawl at how obvious it is.

Then when she says something I can't instantly tell how she 'knew' (such as 'who lost the baby?') I have to point out that just because I don't know how she guessed that doesn't make her explanation the true one.

 

[Macgyver1968]

I watched this show, parts of three episodes with my family yesterday. I was running around doing laundry and so didn't see the entirety of any episode. However, it's just cold reading with the mistakes edited out. More than once my mother asked, "Well how did she know that?"

Every time I said, "he/she/they just told her that." She asks questions, and then repeats the answer with some little vague detail, and people forget they were the one to just answered the damn question. It's especially bad when she says something along the lines of, 'yeah she was yelling in my ear about that!' Well then why did you have to ask miss medium? Why didn't you just say? It makes my skin crawl at how obvious it is.

Then when she says something I can't instantly tell how she 'knew' (such as 'who lost the baby?') I have to point out that just because I don't know how she guessed that doesn't make her explanation the true one.

It wouldn't surprise me if the producers of the show ask the guests questions ahead of time, then relay that information to Miss Big Hair.

This comes from the same network that features "Here comes Honey Boo Boo"...a show so classy that the opening credits features the family posing..and the mother rips a huge fart. Stay classy TLC!

"BLAM!!! BLAM! BLAM!!!! Jeebes...I need other tv!"

 

[alfaniner]

It is most definitely psychological child abuse.

...for profit.

Sickening.

If I was in better shape there would be a StopLongIslandMedium.com up tonight.

I gave that some serious thought but it would require my giving her more attention than I wanted to give.

 

[tyr_13]

It wouldn't surprise me if the producers of the show ask the guests questions ahead of time, then relay that information to Miss Big Hair.

This comes from the same network that features "Here comes Honey Boo Boo"...a show so classy that the opening credits features the family posing..and the mother rips a huge fart. Stay classy TLC!

"BLAM!!! BLAM! BLAM!!!! Jeebes...I need other tv!"

Maybe, maybe not. They wouldn't really have to. All they need do is edit out the misses, which they obviously do with some jump edits.

 

[ScannerHead]

Maybe, maybe not. They wouldn't really have to. All they need do is edit out the misses, which they obviously do with some jump edits.

Your just guessing what they leave out. You dont actually KNOW they do that when you see an edit. You are just speculating more than anything.

 

[Resume]

Your just guessing what they leave out. You dont actually KNOW they do that when you see an edit. You are just speculating more than anything.

Speculating as to what's common knowledge about these cold readers that pose as psychics. They do a lot of missing between hits as they fish their mark for information.

 

[ugot2bekidding]

Psychic Kids has been doing it for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_Kids

Children being psychologically abused for your viewing pleasure.





Reprehensible.

I watched a few minutes of one episode. Someone asked a mother why she didn't bring her child to a Psychologist since she claimed to hear voices etc. The only answer she gave was "I don't want my child to become labeled". So this "parent" decided, instead, that a better choice was to have some kook reinforce the child's delusions.

I guess having a child in therapy isn't much of an ego boost, but being the mother of a "psychic child" makes her a bit of a celebrity. Sickening.

 

[Michael H Anderson]

Edited by Tricky: 

Edited for civility and rule 11

I have often wondered how people like Caputo live with themselves, and have come to the unavoidable conclusion that they also suffer from an antisocial mental illness; also pretty mild but certainly with consequences for their victims as we all have seen. The term "pathological liars" describes them well. After all, it doesn't mean just "lies a lot" - it means they suffer from a mental pathology that compels them to lie, generally in a way that gives them a feeling of control over their victims' emotional state.

I think this neat quote from the Skeptic's Dictionary sums them up pretty well:

"...most mediums ... seem to me clever charlatans of a vulgar and often avaricious type, and perhaps with a morbid passion for deception. In my view, they are almost all not only dishonest from the start, but the real explanation of their success is to be chiefly found in the abnormal development of an inveterate inborn propensity to lie and mislead, which gives them a titillating sense of superiority on the one hand, and on the other the overpowering will to believe on the part of the faithful who accept any suggestion and balk at no absurdity." - G. Stanley Hall, in the introduction to Amy Tanner's classic on mediums and their methods: Studies in Spiritism (1910).

Mediums, in my opinion, would make dandy subjects for abnormal psychology studies, and I can't think why it hasn't been done except for the simple (and sad) fact that sociopaths don't make very cooperate or informative subjects.

 

[Kelly]

Notice how at the end of the video she says something like "It's how I feel."

It's always about how they feel, not anyone else. I would think if I was truly connecting to the dead, my statement would be "It's how the dead feel."

Maybe I misunderstand what she says, but I don't think so.

 

[Michael H Anderson]

Notice how at the end of the video she says something like "It's how I feel."

It's always about how they feel, not anyone else. I would think if I was truly connecting to the dead, my statement would be "It's how the dead feel."

Maybe I misunderstand what she says, but I don't think so.

I don't think you do either. She is now a moneyed celebrity, her contemptible "dippy-suburban-mommy" posture notwithstanding. She is about to embark on a 2-month cross-country tour, and the venues are not going to be hair salons and coffee shops.

Yep: it's all about Theresa.