I wonder how many other ''only'' ''children'' (for want of a better term) are completely ****ed up. To add to the pernicious **** I have two half siblings who are malignant ****.

I do not ''blame'' the mother for all her many failures. She blamed me for everything though. And as a covert Narcissist she convinced the whole of the FOO that I was the monster she imagined in her mind.... who deserved the many years of Punishment.. or even Life ''Imprisonment''..... how awful for her to have been so Disappointed in her only offspring Poor lady I wish I had had more empathy for her, maybe just maybe that might have allowed her to have SOME empathy for me. But I doubt it

My father was The Little Prince who never grew up. With an ego the size of.... ?

A Very Important Person.

A high IQ and a miniscule EQ.