Right on, right on!
Gosh, that poor mom...gives me shivers...how did her daughter hide it so well from her own mother? That’s hard to imagine, unless the mom was wearing heavily-tinted glasses? Plausible.
So it must have been one of the more dramatic denouements, aka: mask-slipping event. Likely the reality the mom had been trying to deny for so long @ her “perfect daughter”...the mom’s denial was so great - that’s why she never fully recovered. Sad.
<<<<shudders
The parallels btwn the various flavors of sociopathy & leftists are impossible to overstate.
As FR often chronicles the left’s hypocritical and childish behaviors, so too does that resonate with the development of these conditions.
One always finds a point where the sociopath “arrested” in development. Usually it has to do with abandonment &/or abuse. All abuse is emotional, so emotional abuse (only) counts too. The age range varies, but you can spot it to somewhere btwn 6 - 14/15.
In a very real sense, they are always “that child”, “that age” (when the trauma occurred)...in adult bodies.
Now how is that so unlike the spoiled rotten ranting leftist loons? How can a Supreme Court Justice Pantload the Boatload of drivel she does? It’s transparent, ridiculous, and appalling all at the same time!
I see no difference between sociopaths & libs.
To understand libs,
study sociopathy.
Dramatic is hardly the word for it. Her mother was a highly moral, exemplary woman. The event was precipitated when the sociopath asked her mother to keep her children while she went on a vacation with a man she had recently met. Obviously she planned to sleep with him. The mother was horrified. She finally tried to restrain her daughter physically. A very unseemly fight broke out between them in the mother's elegant living room. The daughter was chain smoking, something of which the mother disapproved, and in the altercation she burned a hole in the mother's rug. The mother--a grand lady, who had never experienced or even witnessed anything like that--was absolutely in shock! She had always thought of her daughter as a perfect lady, and most of the time the daughter acted like it. She definitely knew how.
"Likely the reality the mom had been trying to deny for so long @ her “perfect daughter”...the mom’s denial was so great - that’s why she never fully recovered."
That's exactly how it was.
"One always finds a point where the sociopath “arrested” in development. Usually it has to do with abandonment &/or abuse. All abuse is emotional, so emotional abuse (only) counts too."
This has not been my experience.
In my experience, these people have had good, nurturing parents and a normal upbringing. Some have had unfortunate experiences, but in the case discussed above, there was absolutely no abuse, physical, emotional, or anything else. The child was raised by very caring, loving parents and given every possible advantage. And although she was well socialized because of her parents, the sociopathy did appear at a very early age. She tried to murder one of her siblings when she was 4 or 5 years old.
I think it's hereditary. There was another one in the same family. A beautiful girl who spent her life on drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous sex and died young. Even her mother wasn't sorry to see her go. She said so.