Tom Widiger

School: University of Kentucky
Department: Psychology
Location:Lexington, KY
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 Years ago when I took one of his classes, I started getting crank calls some of which sounded like his voice. Then I saw him driving through our neighborhood in an old blue car; we lived on a cul de sac. Also there was suddenly all this online harassment from spoof accounts. He said things in class that seemed to allude to what was going on online. It was scary. I felt disgusted even being in the same room with him. I just quit going to UK. Never went back. I think he likes to mess with women's minds in order to hurt them. Also, the "people" sending me the anonymous online messages objectified Asian women. I am sharing my experience and opinion only in the hopes that it will help someone else out there who may have been targeted by him. I would encourage the others to make reports with the Lexington Police Department. To this day, I still don't have Twitter, Insta or Reddit or YouTube accounts because as soon as I try to comment on any topic, I get attacked by all of these spoof accounts. I suspect this mousy little man feels like a big man when he is hiding behind his computer screen. I regret taking his class!
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 This guy had poor boundaries. Should not have been teaching. He started telling me all this personal stuff about his life and his mom being an alcoholic and how she gave his sister anabuse the first time she went out and partied. Also how he got bullied in school as a kid... like, WTF? I just wanted help with my psychology class. I didn't want to hear all of that! I feel like I paid my tuition for him to teach a class. I wasn't there to solve his hangups. He acted so odd, like really unstable. I would never take one of his classes again!
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 One person left him a negative review of his class and he posted it on his door for all to see in an effort to try to humiliate the kid and show how much it didn't bother him. He's that kind of guy. I had a really difficult time dealing with him. He's not professional at all. Like students would joke about having to "catch him in a good mood." They really should not having to be dealing with fallout from his mental problems.
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 Has he stalked you online? I have filed a complaint with the FBI. You are not alone. Contact the FBI.
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 Has he stalked you online? I have filed a complaint with the FBI. You are not alone. Contact the FBI.

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