They've each repressed the memories in different ways. Neil still believes that it was a good thing. It'll be some time before he understands the power one person can have over another--especially an adult over a child. Brian, no less traumatized, believes it was an alien abduction. His dreams lead him back to Neil, abducted as well, so he thinks. They meet halfway on Christmas Eve, each with a better understanding of what happened and a tentative way forward.
The damage is written on Neil's pained face, in his mumbled dialogue, in the way his body's natural state is "slouch." He wants to disappear, and he says as much in the last line of the film. His mind has yet to catch up with his instincts. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is phenomenal as Neil in "Mysterious Skin."
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