I have met other (non autistic) children of narcissistic mothers, and the thing they share with Chris is rejecting common sense explanations in favor of crazy bullshit. Their moms fed them crazy bullshit so much as kids that it feels true when people lie to them, and seems suspicious and weird when the plain truth is told. No one tells the truth in that kind of household. Chris is doubly disadvantaged by autism. I know I brought up the ARC charity in the first thread, but it bears repeating, they can help him in many ways to preserve whatever level of independence he is capable of. He is at risk, even with null helping, because IRL and phone scammers can get to him too, lord knows barb can't do anything.