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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 184679" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I've wondered if the daughter could have narcissistic personality disorder. Except that her opinions of herself and her talent are NOT exaggerated, the girl is brilliant. But she sabotages herself almost deliberately; gets very disdainful about a job she might have lost ("I didn't want to work for them any more anyway, it was a dead-end job") or a change in career path. As soon as she begins to be noticed and successful, she backs away and makes excuses. I've noticed she hates competing unless she can be certain of winning by a mile. Otherwise she will be disparaging about the competition as an excuse to not even try. She expects the world to beat a path to her door - and it would, if only she would do just a little to let herself be known for what she can do, and to take a few risks. She is beautiful, she is talented and she can sing like an angel. She has a knack for knowing exactly what an audience wants. But she can be impossible to work with if there is any crisis or uncertainty.</p><p>She reminds me of a cat walking across a slippery floor - always trying to be graceful, but a slight slip and the cat tries to pretend that it meant to do that, it wanted to change direction anyway to go look at something over THERE. Although in her case, she would be avoiding walking across the slippery floor and would be very disdainful about people who polish floors!</p><p></p><p>But her grandfather - perhaps he seemed worse because nobody ever called him on it. Or perhaps his wife tried to early on, but he was such a forceful personality she learned it was easier to bend rather than risk breaking.</p><p></p><p>Very sad, really.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 184679, member: 1991"] I've wondered if the daughter could have narcissistic personality disorder. Except that her opinions of herself and her talent are NOT exaggerated, the girl is brilliant. But she sabotages herself almost deliberately; gets very disdainful about a job she might have lost ("I didn't want to work for them any more anyway, it was a dead-end job") or a change in career path. As soon as she begins to be noticed and successful, she backs away and makes excuses. I've noticed she hates competing unless she can be certain of winning by a mile. Otherwise she will be disparaging about the competition as an excuse to not even try. She expects the world to beat a path to her door - and it would, if only she would do just a little to let herself be known for what she can do, and to take a few risks. She is beautiful, she is talented and she can sing like an angel. She has a knack for knowing exactly what an audience wants. But she can be impossible to work with if there is any crisis or uncertainty. She reminds me of a cat walking across a slippery floor - always trying to be graceful, but a slight slip and the cat tries to pretend that it meant to do that, it wanted to change direction anyway to go look at something over THERE. Although in her case, she would be avoiding walking across the slippery floor and would be very disdainful about people who polish floors! But her grandfather - perhaps he seemed worse because nobody ever called him on it. Or perhaps his wife tried to early on, but he was such a forceful personality she learned it was easier to bend rather than risk breaking. Very sad, really. Marg [/QUOTE]
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