LW's niece (I refuse to write out even her pseudonym) has apparently learned the opposite of empathy--- that it is fun to cause other people distress and that she can do it with impunity because she does not feel other people's distress that she caused as a bad thing, in fact the opposite and that her well-connected family will cover it up if any of the people to whom she causes distress for her amusement do the only things that will make her feel in any way bad about the distress she causes others, namely cause her physical pain. (Seriously, the level of entitlement you have to have as a legal minor to torment and mock a totally-strange-to-you legal adult who is about to become a member of your family and thus might end up with guardianship rights, however temporary, over you is staggering to me.) I bet that if news of this has gotten out in the wider community, there are a whole bunch of LW's niece's other victims who are quietly cheering on Adele. And also that maybe Adele should take this as a warning sign and back away slowly from that family, who have clearly enabled LW's niece to think that she can knowingly and deliberately torment other people for her own amusement with impunity. And this is the carefully worded version of my response to this.
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LW's niece (I refuse to write out even her pseudonym) has apparently learned the opposite of empathy--- that it is fun to cause other people distress and that she can do it with impunity because she does not feel other people's distress that she caused as a bad thing, in fact the opposite and that her well-connected family will cover it up if any of the people to whom she causes distress for her amusement do the only things that will make her feel in any way bad about the distress she causes others, namely cause her physical pain. (Seriously, the level of entitlement you have to have as a legal minor to torment and mock a totally-strange-to-you legal adult who is about to become a member of your family and thus might end up with guardianship rights, however temporary, over you is staggering to me.) I bet that if news of this has gotten out in the wider community, there are a whole bunch of LW's niece's other victims who are quietly cheering on Adele. And also that maybe Adele should take this as a warning sign and back away slowly from that family, who have clearly enabled LW's niece to think that she can knowingly and deliberately torment other people for her own amusement with impunity. And this is the carefully worded version of my response to this.