The fear of weights: the pull-down trauma and Rusk's standing exemption

texture · ~age 14 (B.S./backstory)

• When: UNDATED backstory (age fourteen), standing through YDAU
• What: At fourteen Stice suffered a "traumatic psychic experience" when he set the weight too high on the pull-down station; Dr. Dolores Rusk has since authorized his exemption from all but very basic weights, pending resolution of his fear of weights — the E.T.A. joke being that the surely-Show-bound Stice has no fear of heights but does fear weights. He also carries a standing regret that he "neglected Lyle's advice about the pull-down station two years back" (scene 084).