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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Carson's MOTHER contradicted claim he attacked her with a hammer - and said it was actually the other way round
Ben Carson's own mother contradicted his claim that he came after her with a hammer during a teenage dispute over a pair of pants.
Carson, 64, has repeated the anecdote on numerous occasions over the years as an example of what he has presented as once uncontrollable rage that resulted in a string of violent episodes.
They included attacking his own mother, beating a classmate with a padlock and culminated in him attempting to stab a friend over what music channel they were listening to on the radio.
His rage, as he tells it, led to a sort of Damascene moment at the age of 14 when he asked for God's intervention and was forever changed.
Across two interviews conducted in 1996 and 2002 by the Academy of Achievement Carson stated: 'I tried to hit my mother in the head with a hammer. I would just become irrational because I would get so angry…'
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Family: Pictured in 2008, Carson poses in his home with his wife, Lacena 'Candy' Rustin, his two sons and his mother, Sonya Carson.
Key figure: Sonya Carson (left) is the person Ben Carson credits with helping him becoming a success - including when he graduated from Yale, whe
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Dr. Ben Carson: My mom "refused to be a victim"
My daughter recently read the fascinating story of how a poor child raised in the inner-city of Detroit became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33.
There were many great take-aways for my daughter, who is 16, and I think there were just as many for me. This is Dr. Ben Carson’s message for you…
His mother was one of 24 children and was married at 13. He was an ethnic minority, and grew up in devastating poverty. These are not usually the ingredients for a successful career. If ever there was an excuse to fail, and fail miserably, Dr. Ben Carson had it.
But Dr. Carson refused to use the situation he was born into as an excuse.
Instead, he used it as motivation and became one of the most prominent physicians in the United States, not to mention the author of several books.
How did he do it? To paraphrase Dr. Carson:
Obviously, I had all the strikes against me: single-parent home, dire poverty, poor self-esteem, and horrible temper. These things tend to preclude success. And they would have in my case also, but my mother, who had only a third-grade education, refused to be a victim. That was the key. She never felt sorry for herself. And that was a good thing. But there
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