Well I have many prior writings here on my upbringing of causes and effects of how I was introduced to NPD. My mother too has issues and I'm sure I was born with something but due to natural or unnatural ways of being shown as a child I was given NPD as a coping mechanism to deal with life. I don't believe that a person is born with their PD rather their PD becomes them after their experiences with life from the first few years of life. Now I am not a professional but this is my opinion in first stages of any PD. One day very soon I wil write my true self and what a day is like for me. Being open for others to see may help more than just myself. The similarities some of us have are truly amazing. For people who have never met to share so many of these "screwed up" ways keeps me intrigued. And we all know how much that means for a person with NPD to say they are intrigued by others LOL!!!!!