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Nicole Sutula

I’m in awe of that last bit, truly. You’re the first reactor, I think, who’s actually noticed how much Sam (who’s supposedly the “emotional one”) actually really and truly buries his emotions. They certainly weren’t ever encouraged, between Dean and John. Sam’s so empathetic, I think, and so determined to make Dean talk out his issues, because he took so much emotional….abuse seems like the wrong word. But in the pilot, when he said if it weren’t for pictures he wouldn’t even know what his mother looked like….and there’s just several moments where we see what a minefield he saw his fractured family as being. The one time we see him in a flash back trying to ask about Mary, it’s Dean who jumps down his throat. And we know if he was gonna go to anyone with his emotions it was gonna be Dean. No way he’d approach John with anything important. Sam’s such a ridiculously emotional, sensitive person in so many ways. It’s the core of him. As it is Dean, in lots of ways. But Sam genuinely learned to bury and repress that part of him. When it comes to himself. Even as he goes out of his way to offer grace and understanding to everyone else. He had to learn to handle his own emotions. Because he couldn’t really trust either John or Dean with them. And we see the scars of that still. He goes quiet when he’s hurting, closes himself off, as opposed to Dean’s tendency to externalize his emotions. Sam feeling like a freak started with his family. Dean’s come a LONG way since when they were kids, but Sam was never accepted or valued for who he actually was. Dean, of course, molded himself into John, to get that acceptance. To feel valued. I’m not actually sure which (if either of them) came out ahead there.