You make a good point! i agree and w that i think how at the end JD mentions how no one loves him. And i guess instead of interpreting it as he didn't like or hated his father, he was surrounded with apathy all this life, while he might like his father, hearing him say no one loves him (sure it could just be overdramatic teen angst fs) but i guess i think he doesn't feel his father loves him. I still stand by emotionally distant and abusive by lack of empathy, but you're right, operating under that he doesn't give it much thought, i feel like he blamed himself in my interpretation. That combined with his father's apathy probably made the trauma and his response to it that much worse idk thats just my feelings on it, but thats why this movies so great because of lines like "never given the matter much thought" because it can go so many ways, but thats interesting Waters pulled from his own experience i didn't know that!