>
> So, for me at least, looking at my family dynamics, NPD and AS seem
> to be polar opposites.
>
> kathy
> redwood city, ca
>
> ----
>
> Hi Kathy,
> How about Reactive Attachment Disorder? It's approximately the
same thing as NPD in that the etiology is the same.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder
>
> http://counsellingresource.com/ask-the-
psychologist/2008/02/26/borderline-personality-disorder-and-reactive-
attachment-disorder/
>
> http://attachinghearts.blogspot.com/2008/08/adult-rad.html
>
> The big difference between RAD or Asperger's Syndrome and NPD is
that NPD is totally unflattering and therefore more likely to be
diagnosed by psychoanalysts rather than regular psychotherpists who
would more likely diagnose RAD. But I swear I can't tell the
difference on the face of it. The big problem is that psychoanalysts
are inclined delve into the inner evil and see through the posing.
>
>
> Anyway, I have it all. The conditions are indistiguishable to me.
I am not proud of my evil impulses. In fact I am really ashamed of
them, but I can't deny them. Moreover, I don't think I'm much more
horrible than other people. Jesus said man is born in sin, and I
assume that means everybody. What's more, according to Freud all
mental illness is just an exaggeration of normality.
>
> The thing that interested me the most in the report was that
business about physical beauty in children with NPD. On the face of
it, it makes sense considering the name of the illness
is "narcissistic personality disorder." (When I was little I was
really beautiful. People used to turn their heads and gawk at me)
Not only is this a condition that might make any child inclined to
turn inward (the word "autism" originally was "auto-erotism"), but
the beauty is a convenient comfort for a child, and therefore
withdrawal into the self is not such a dreadful option.
http://www.paains.org.uk/articles/beautiful.htm
>
> I think it's more than coincidental that this is common also in
NPD.
>
> Yours,
> Larry
>


RAD is a distinct possibility, although it would have developed a
little later in my life than the articles suggest (around 10). I
absolutely have had problems in developing "attachments" with people;
to the point that by the time I was 18 if I had to sit and have a one
on one conversation with someone my entire body would start shaking
and I would feel sick to my stomach. It is not as bad now but I still
tend to be very inhibited, nervous, and anxious with people that I do
not know well.

kathy
redwood city, ca