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To: nwrep
I remember reading somewhere that one of the obvious signs of a dysfunctional personality is when people start referring to things that were the results of their own actions as if they were acts of nature that "just happened" to them.
7 posted on 05/23/2003 9:15:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child
"Victims" of circumstance.
22 posted on 05/23/2003 9:25:24 PM PDT by visualops (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: Alberta's Child
I think it's a symptom of pathological lying; and a cry for recognition as a victim, a subset of narcissism as in "girls, look at me, I've been hurt."
28 posted on 05/23/2003 9:28:07 PM PDT by breakem
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To: Alberta's Child
"one of the obvious signs of a dysfunctional personality is when people start referring to things that were the results of their own actions as if they were acts of nature that "just happened" to them"

Bill Clinton is one giant, flashing neon sign of dysfunctionality!

236 posted on 05/25/2003 1:46:47 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: Alberta's Child
I remember reading somewhere that one of the obvious signs of a dysfunctional personality is when people start referring to things that were the results of their own actions as if they were acts of nature that "just happened" to them.

You'll encounter that again and again among criminals and psychopaths.

240 posted on 05/25/2003 2:02:10 PM PDT by dighton
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