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[quote=Anonymous]This was a tough article for me.  I dated a sociopath right after college and I still wake at night in panic from a dream drawing on those days.  He was not physically violent but emotionally abusive, brutally judgmental, and wholly unrepentant.  If you asked my college peers, I would probably be the last woman they pegged being in that kind of relationship.  But there I was, ever increasingly isolated from friends and completely baffled by how I could always be so wrong.  His family knew he had troubled relations with women and others (folks who had "wronged" him), but they were very clear that he was family and that those menaced by him were on their own.

While the groups of kids sounded troubling, I am not a mental health professional, so my perspective, when reading this article, was "thank god someone is trying to do something."  I was horrified when the journalist reported that some professionals felt it was better to do nothing so these folks were not stigmatized.  Seriously?  People are murdered, swindled, driven to suicide by these folks and their worry is that they will be stigmatized?  Wow.

That said, I have friends who are struggling with their DC, who displays some, though no means all, of these traits.  My heart goes out to them and I try to support them as best as I can.  While I never leave my children alone with their DC, I also don't shun.  I guess, because of my experience, I believe I have some insight and hope that positive interactions may help DC's development.[/quote]

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