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I've had a somewhat similar situation in my extended family. My two nieces have been grasping for attention their whole lives. My brother is an uncaring and inattentive parent (and probably on the sociopath spectrum) and his kids are always trying to one up each other for his attention.

One does something ridiculous and the other will go to an extreme to counter. One is now claiming she is "gender fluid" but may decide to be a boy. She's is not boyish at all. I know them very well. Not a bit of real "gender fluidity" in her.

When I am around I give them all the "fatherly" attention they don't get from their dad. But I'm afraid that it hasn't been enough. They also suffer from the narcissistic generation's look at me, look at me" syndrome. I love them, but it gets old.

Thanks, my brother has been the model father to these girls, his wife has not been a very good, nurturing or fair mother.

She has been a negative influence on her daughters. So sad.