Since you're magical I'll give you a pass but please consider calling him a sandwich. Sammich is our word.
This is probably mandated by his doctor as a condition for keeping an opiate prescription and he is posting about it publicly so he can point to it as a reason why he isn't drug seeking when he continues to press for an opiate prescription.
The Doctors Muscato are all alone with each other, their other successful adult children and grandson. Even more sadly, they have friends and colleagues. They must be so lonely.My favorite projection from la principessa:
Dave makes some really good points though: narcissists usually DO get worse as they age, with their behaviour escalating into increasingly extreme acts, often resulting in serious consequences for them.
I can't articulate why, but I've always deep down felt the opposite on some level.
I have little doubt that his parents indulged young Dave and that didn't help with his selfishness and narcissism, but this forum alone is filled with examples of cows with normal healthy siblings. Dave himself is an example of this. Some people are just bad seeds. Whether it's genetic mental illness, they just learn the wrong lessons enough times that it sets them down a path they aren't likely to come back from, maybe authority figures fail them in a couple key moments; I personally don't think it matters. We are creatures with free will with the notable exceptions of severe mental illness. Dave's parents never had a chance if he is that mentally ill, otherwise he chooses not to better himself and to be a lazy selfish prick everyday. People can change. One of the defining characteristics of a cow is that they refuse to learn or always learn the wrong lesson. It's true that not everyone changes for the better, but most people don't actively try to ruin people's lives like Dave either. He doesn't even appear to try.
Dave is undoubtedly an asshole.
I don't think anyone would deny they enabled Dave long after a lot of people would have cut him off. The die was already long cast by that time imo. He's been an obnoxious prick since he was first discovered on the internet. Maybe they did it because they're bleeding hearts and he's an activist transwymyn fighting for causes they believe in. Maybe they did it because they're too kind-hearted for their own good.
I mean, I don't disagree. Dave is awful and on a certain level "no one deserves to be abused." I believe that sincerely.
But they don't invite it, at least not anymore. They've kicked him out for good. They had him arrested over the country club lunches. They've called the police over the harassment. They've had enough. Sure, based on my own life experiences I expect I would have gotten to this point before they did. They weren't firm enough when they first tried push their 35 year old, or whatever, baby bird out of the nest and I'd have told them as much if I were their close friends or family. What I fundamentally disagree with you on is that you said you felt like they deserved it. I don't. Although, I guess now you're saying you don't believe that either.
I was mixed up and very wrong because for some reason I thought he still lived with them.
He had a major falling out with his family in November 2022 and moved out. As I recall, the precipitating incident was that he refused to stop cursing like a drunken sailor in the presence of his young nephew, which his father became angry about. The details are somewhere upthread.
This isn't entirely related to Dave, but you know how there are social media groups for "estranged parents," the opposite force to the families you hear about Redditors "cutting off?" Most of them are as bad as the kids say, but some of the parents were probably estranged for not being trans-supportive enough.
