Aileen Wuronos
Aileen Wuornos: “I’ll be back.”
April 30, 2013
Abnormal Psychology
Portfolio Entry Throughout this entire class and its contents, I’ve learned a lot about different people, and the abnormal part of psychology, I’ve learned about dozens of disorders and mental disturbances, and I’ve watched countless films and read bunches of stories, but nothing I’ve done has meant as much to me as this paper and its subject, Aileen Carol Wuornos. It must have been some sort of force that brought me to her. I learned about her one night watching Nick Broomfield’s Documentaries, “Life and Death of a Serial Killer: The Aileen Wuornos Story,” and its sequel, “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.” From that moment, Aileen and her story have been a constant element in my life. I don’t remember how I even found the documentary; all I remember is being fascinated with this woman and the story she left behind her. Since then I’ve been entrapped in her life and story and the woman behind the story. Aileen is with me every day, I have her book in my bag every day and I continue to read it over and over and over, praying I didn’t miss a single detail about her. I watch her documentaries and movies over and over hoping to find something I missed that will explain her and help me understand my fascination with her. Hundreds of people have written about her and have been fascinated by this woman, but they don’t see her the way I do. Movies have been made about her life, but they take the humanity out of her, making her out to be nothing more than a shell of a human being. They see her as a monster, a cruel villainous woman who preys on men for sex and money, and then kills them. They see a worthless prostitute who killed men; they see her as a man hating, lesbian. That’s not who Aileen Wuornos was. Aileen Carol Wuornos was a tortured soul, plagued with neglect and abuse from the moment she was born, a woman who never had a chance to live the life she so
April 30, 2013
Abnormal Psychology
Portfolio Entry Throughout this entire class and its contents, I’ve learned a lot about different people, and the abnormal part of psychology, I’ve learned about dozens of disorders and mental disturbances, and I’ve watched countless films and read bunches of stories, but nothing I’ve done has meant as much to me as this paper and its subject, Aileen Carol Wuornos. It must have been some sort of force that brought me to her. I learned about her one night watching Nick Broomfield’s Documentaries, “Life and Death of a Serial Killer: The Aileen Wuornos Story,” and its sequel, “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.” From that moment, Aileen and her story have been a constant element in my life. I don’t remember how I even found the documentary; all I remember is being fascinated with this woman and the story she left behind her. Since then I’ve been entrapped in her life and story and the woman behind the story. Aileen is with me every day, I have her book in my bag every day and I continue to read it over and over and over, praying I didn’t miss a single detail about her. I watch her documentaries and movies over and over hoping to find something I missed that will explain her and help me understand my fascination with her. Hundreds of people have written about her and have been fascinated by this woman, but they don’t see her the way I do. Movies have been made about her life, but they take the humanity out of her, making her out to be nothing more than a shell of a human being. They see her as a monster, a cruel villainous woman who preys on men for sex and money, and then kills them. They see a worthless prostitute who killed men; they see her as a man hating, lesbian. That’s not who Aileen Wuornos was. Aileen Carol Wuornos was a tortured soul, plagued with neglect and abuse from the moment she was born, a woman who never had a chance to live the life she so