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Do they think he's a retard?


The white tux. The 12 year old best friend. The apartment with toys.

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Maybe it wasn't so weird in the 80s, Michael Jackson was like that and nobody thought it was odd..

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Well they did, but he was the golden goose so he got to do whatever he wanted as long as he kept making big music.

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Maybe it wasn't so weird in the 80s, Michael Jackson was like that and nobody thought it was odd..
Oh yes they did! In the late 80's to mid 90's people thought he was a pedophile.

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Oh yes they did! In the late 80's to mid 90's people thought he was a pedophile.


I don't recall any of that, though I must confess I was too young at the time, I think those rumors were only around in 1993 and onwards during the Chandler case.

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It does seem like Josh was acting a little too juvenile for his age when he turned into Tom Hanks. Some 13 year olds are already having sex (probably in the late 80s too) but he was oblivious to almost everything.

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Yup, he seemed like a smart kid who all of a sudden became a bit of a weirdo.

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I'm sure 13 year olds were having sex 5,000 years ago. That didn't just get invented with 13 year olds with your age group.

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I'm sure 13 year olds were having sex 5,000 years ago. That didn't just get invented with 13 year olds with your age group. Though it's normal for every generation to think they are "the first ones" to do something with sex or drugs.

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Are you kidding? Everyone apart from his fans thought and still think he was odd.

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Are you kidding? Everyone apart from his fans thought and still think he was odd.


Odd yes, but I don't think people speculated, at least not in public that he was sexually abusing the youngters he befriended during the eighties, that came later. But you're free to prove me wrong.

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How old are you? I promise you it would have been weird for any grown adult to act the way Tom Hanks did in 1988. I am around the character of Josh's age, like about 12 in 1988. So I know.

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Lol!!! Everyone thought that was weird!

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The tux and the toys were ok just he was eccentric or nuts of which NY at that time time was , so this wouldn't have been out of place , as for his 12 yr old friend Billy 30 yr old josh explained earlier Billy was his son and to every one that met them he explained that

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They would think he held onto his childhood innocence somehow. He doesn't act "retarded" so why would anyone think that?

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Most coworkers wouldn't have known about his excellent loft. And the white tux certainly would have been out of place at an event like that! But if the boss was okay with the eccentricity, everyone else could go along with it.

It never seemed like they suspected an intellectual disability.

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That's what I figured. I wondered if there was a bit of truth to Paul's words when he said 'the old man's finally lost it', not his mind but his patience. Maybe MacMillan was so sick of the stuff shirt bureaucracy he was willing to overlook Josh's eccentric side himself.

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Wrong movie, this isn't Forrest Gump.."Don't call him stupid" Lieutenant Dan

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No, only liberals are stupid.

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In the '80s everybody with a functioning brain thought Michael Jackson was a weirdo, and probably a pedophile. It was not a simple, innocent time.

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