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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 439379" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Personally I don't quite take that perspective, Susiestar. How appropriate would anyone's emotions seem to be if they were being viewed all day long by millions of people? I used to know someone who laughed at the most inappropriate moments, when something sad or difficult was being talked of - it must have been a nervous reaction. Someone can be accused of murder, going through hell, and still laugh. I have no psychological training and don't understand much about disassociation but I imagine it plays out like this; numbing of feelings, going through the motions of normality. None of it tells us anything about what is really happening for this young woman. Trial by TV... It's a strange thing - and I have got as caught up as anyone is watching it all. </p><p>By saying this I don't mean that I think Casey is "innocent". But what I have seen is that when she did (to me) display absolutely genuine emotions of grief, few people were satisfied by that, either! They accused her of faking, of playing to the jury, etc. So she really cannot win.</p><p>What on earth happened...? I suspect she loved the child as far as a profoundly narcissistic and immature personality can, really was unable to mother her properly, put her own selfish and pleasure-bound desires ahead of the child's welfare and drugged her with chloroform so she could go out and enjoy herself. It all went horribly wrong and of course she covered it up - that seems to me entirely consistent with the kind of person she is. She may well also be sociopathic and so not feel the things that people usually feel or respond the way people usually respond.</p><p>But of course I don't KNOW. And she may have pre-meditated the child's death. I just don't find that as plausible or likely but... life is stranger than fiction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 439379, member: 11227"] Personally I don't quite take that perspective, Susiestar. How appropriate would anyone's emotions seem to be if they were being viewed all day long by millions of people? I used to know someone who laughed at the most inappropriate moments, when something sad or difficult was being talked of - it must have been a nervous reaction. Someone can be accused of murder, going through hell, and still laugh. I have no psychological training and don't understand much about disassociation but I imagine it plays out like this; numbing of feelings, going through the motions of normality. None of it tells us anything about what is really happening for this young woman. Trial by TV... It's a strange thing - and I have got as caught up as anyone is watching it all. By saying this I don't mean that I think Casey is "innocent". But what I have seen is that when she did (to me) display absolutely genuine emotions of grief, few people were satisfied by that, either! They accused her of faking, of playing to the jury, etc. So she really cannot win. What on earth happened...? I suspect she loved the child as far as a profoundly narcissistic and immature personality can, really was unable to mother her properly, put her own selfish and pleasure-bound desires ahead of the child's welfare and drugged her with chloroform so she could go out and enjoy herself. It all went horribly wrong and of course she covered it up - that seems to me entirely consistent with the kind of person she is. She may well also be sociopathic and so not feel the things that people usually feel or respond the way people usually respond. But of course I don't KNOW. And she may have pre-meditated the child's death. I just don't find that as plausible or likely but... life is stranger than fiction. [/QUOTE]
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