This was a long and winding read, but it delivers on Footnote 2 alone. Thanks for lesson on personality disorder and demonstration of flexible reality. Its one thing to amuse (and annoy) and another thing entirely to defraud.
It's interesting that the DSM describes so many traits that CHILDREN have. In adulthood it's a condition. In childhood, I assume?--it's a developmental stage.
I remember a teacher getting upset with my child when very young because he couldn't tell the difference between things he imagined and reality. I was supposed to be really tough on him until he stopped believing what he imagined was REAL. But he simply wasn't able to make the distinction. I assumed he was going to outgrow this, as I recalled having a similar experience in childhood, and believed my home was surrounded by monkeys living in trees. But one day I just stopped believing this and other things like a giant heap of dirt in a nearby field covered a working Pontiac that I simply needed to uncover and could drive.
My child did outgrow his tendency as well.
This perhaps explains why I feel oddly protective of George Santos though--he reminds me of a child. I maybe have a gut instinct when an adult reminds me of a child, like 'oh no! He's gonna get in so much trouble now!' And I feel distressed. Of course I realize the law is the law, he's not a child, etc. Some people do have a way of cognizing though that's clearly lacking some capacity other adults tend to have. It's very curious. Is there any understanding of the actual cause--like a structural deficiency or something?
This was a long and winding read, but it delivers on Footnote 2 alone. Thanks for lesson on personality disorder and demonstration of flexible reality. Its one thing to amuse (and annoy) and another thing entirely to defraud.
It's interesting that the DSM describes so many traits that CHILDREN have. In adulthood it's a condition. In childhood, I assume?--it's a developmental stage.
I remember a teacher getting upset with my child when very young because he couldn't tell the difference between things he imagined and reality. I was supposed to be really tough on him until he stopped believing what he imagined was REAL. But he simply wasn't able to make the distinction. I assumed he was going to outgrow this, as I recalled having a similar experience in childhood, and believed my home was surrounded by monkeys living in trees. But one day I just stopped believing this and other things like a giant heap of dirt in a nearby field covered a working Pontiac that I simply needed to uncover and could drive.
My child did outgrow his tendency as well.
This perhaps explains why I feel oddly protective of George Santos though--he reminds me of a child. I maybe have a gut instinct when an adult reminds me of a child, like 'oh no! He's gonna get in so much trouble now!' And I feel distressed. Of course I realize the law is the law, he's not a child, etc. Some people do have a way of cognizing though that's clearly lacking some capacity other adults tend to have. It's very curious. Is there any understanding of the actual cause--like a structural deficiency or something?