My sister called her daughter "drama queen" yesterday. I suppose that isn't bad, considering that she knows (and does) the symptoms and characteristics.
"You know what I'm going to get you for Christmas Mom? I'm gonna get you a cross; so that whenever you feel unappreciated, you can just nail yourself up on it for everyone to see."+
My sister likes martyrdom, "the hours are good and [she] like[s] the pay"++. I've understood her feelings/need for the drama. I don't think she was missing attention, though another sister got more of it, through trouble-causing.
+ Ref, movie
++ Law & Order episode where a stand-up comic is suspected of his wife's murder; the quote in in reference to being an SOB, for wife beating (and other abuses)
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Your blogs have become so abstract that I had to dig up this line from "The Life of Brian," one of the prophets speaking to the crowd:
BORING PROPHET: ...Obadiah, his servants. There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi-- with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one...
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