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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what you write about your DDs interest in CNN and lack of empathy reminds me about my older brother's daughter. Although there were a few things she said and did that concerned me, otherwise, she seemed like a happy and healthy girl. As a teenager, though, she became increasingly fixated on true crime shows. She'd sit and watch them all day during vacation. When she came to visit me in DC, she begged to go to the Holocaust museum. She'd been in a bad mood throughout the visit, but that changed at the museum. She literally skipped through the museum, beaming the whole time. Bad mood returned afterward, but she was happy during the time we were in the museum.

[b]You won't be surprised to know she received diagnoses of very serious PD once she was old enough for official diagnoses.[/b]

I only know the limited amount of information you provide here, but here's my input, fwiw: be very proactive in working to support your DD's development of empathy. Get her involved in volunteer activities that don't have her just sitting on the sterile sidelines of human experience. Serving people in soup kitchens might be a good experience for her. I would even recommend therapy with a really well-recommended therapist, in addition to other appropriate interventions.

I wish we could turn back time to when my niece was 10 or 11 so that we could implement intensive measures to prevent what happened with her. Based on my research about this kind of approach, I think it's possible we could have turned things around.[/quote]

PD?[/quote]

Personality Disorder, I'm guessing. Probably Antisocial or Narcissistic. I'm not sure it's helpful to scare the OP like this. I don't hear that DD is exhibiting serious antisocial traits or anything.[/quote]

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