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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]/\ also OP is a jerk who should worry more about her personality disorder than someone else's extra 20 pounds[/quote]

Why do you say OP has a personality disorder? Jerk or judgmental maybe, but what kind of personality disorder are you thinking?[/quote]

Not PP but I do think OP's comments indicated more than just a regular amount of judgmental thinking. I find it interesting that she specifically dislikes that people "use" pregnancy as an excuse. This is an interesting way to frame it because it puts her in the role of arbiter -- she decides if you need to lose weight, and she decides what an acceptable reason for not losing weight is. A mentally healthy person does not think about other people this way. You might judge someone else, you might even judge them for something petty and shallow like their weight. But since their weight isn't really any of your business, why would you care one way or another what they blame their weight issues on? If instead of blaming pregnancy for weight gain, women blamed stress, would she decide that is an acceptable explanation? No, of course not. She has decided that her explanation (laziness) is the only possible one and she is holding everyone else to the same standard even though any thinking person can see that people have very different experiences with bodies and weight. Even the peri-menopause stuff she mentions -- it's like it never occurs to her that menopause varies a lot from woman to woman and there is no universal experience.

So yeah, this reads as some light narcissism laced with control issues. The rigidity of her thinking, in particular, is a problem. Also lack of empathy towards other people. I wouldn't go so far as to say she has NPD or that she's borderline -- I'd need a lot more information. But yeah, she is displaying a lot of personality issues that indicate the problem is 100% her approach to other people, and not the other people.[/quote]

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