Bill Gates opens up to go to therapy as a child: Book

As an adult, Bill Gates says he looks back on his childhood and feels enormous gratitude to his parents.

But when he was little they did not always see eye-to-eye-and when he began to meet a therapist he actually used the word “war” to describe the state of their family union

Gates, now 69, was placed in therapy at the age of 12 by their parents. IN His new memoir Source codeHe shares a particularly nasty argument that broke out at dinner.

Although he does not remember what led to disagreement, Gates admits that his “especially meaningful” behavior “caused his” gentle “father, Bill Gates Sr., to empty” a glass of water in my face. ”

What happened next? Gates snapped, he writes: “Thanks for the shower.”

Then “he slowly put down my fork, got up and went down to the room.”

At that time, writes Gates, “he generated so much concern” that his parents sought help from Dr. Charles Cressy, whose clientele in the mid-1960s largely consisted of married couples.

“The whole family came to the first visit, but everyone knew we were there because of me,” he explains in his memoir.

Then the problem seemed clear, at least for him.

“I’m at war with my parents,” he remembers that he told Cresskey.

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Gates, whose sessions continued for about two and a half years, writes that Cress’s “never told me how I would think or what I did right or wrong.”

Instead, he assured the young man, “you will win.”

“Without being prescribed, Dr. Creesey helped me see that (a) my parents loved me; (b) I would not be under their roof forever; (c) They were actually my allies when it comes to what really counted; (D) It was absurd to think they had done something wrong, ”writes Gates.

Years later, Gates also learned from his father that Cressy had told his parents to “lighten up” a little.

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Talk to people in an interview about Source codeGates says that his “admiration for my parents goes up” the more time he has spent reflecting on his childhood and everything they could do for him – especially when he didn’t make it easy for them.

“By and large, I knew that I had been a challenging child and I would not hold back from saying that it was not a straight path for my parents to find out what they would do,” he says.

“If you are willing to read a book about someone, you hope they do not write any expensive hagiography that I never got any mathematical problems wrong and always got, and I never broke any rules or got problems,” he continues. “I think the most important thing you read these things for is to understand, okay, these people are human.”

Source code Is out now.