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Guess this is the first time the reporter has encountered someone with antisocial personality disorder.

• jstarfish 3y ago
  > “Elizabeth is a very, very charismatic person. When she speaks to you, she makes you feel like you are the most important person in her world in that moment. She almost has this reality distortion field around her that people can just get sucked into.” > “I still dream about being able to contribute in that space,” Holmes tells her. “I still feel the same calling to it as I always did and I still think the need is there.” > “I was admittedly swept up in Liz as an authentic and sympathetic person. She’s gentle and charismatic, in a quiet way. My editor laughed at me when I shared these impressions, telling me (and I quote), ‘Amy Chozick, you got rolled!'” Characteristics of Narcissistic personality disorder, not APD. I actually believe that she's genuine in her intentions-- she's just completely fucking clueless and surrounded by enablers (self-selected, of course-- never challenge these people or you'll get cut out of their next big thing). Her "success" feeds her own grandiosity so she reaches for more. It's like watching a child star trying to adapt to aging out of what made them famous in the first place. Prisons are full of APDs. They don't bother with pageantry, they just knife you in the gut, steal your shit, leave you for dead, and never think about you again.
  • bagacrap 3y ago
    I think she is probably both. Anyway, Mrs. Holmes will herself be imprisoned soon, so I guess she'll be the odd one out if her diagnosis is just NPD.