Seems like so many of the difficult children that bring us here are doing the same things, saying the same things. Do you think it's possible they have a forum too, where they share their best practices in manipulating parents to do what they want?
I've always said there is a secret handbook they use. The idea of them having their own forum, wouldn't surprise me one bit.
This is what is what reinforces that addiction IS an illness. Same thing with any other illness, some symptoms are shared by many and other symptoms may only be suffered by certain people! I see this is not on addiction forum but well there it is anyway!