Meet Alex: New York's Youngest Hustler

Rather, what I'd take away (from a cursory level, anyways) is not his glibness and glaringly ostentatious demeanor-- it's his glibness and glaringly ostenation demeanor <em>at such a young age</em>.

Rarely would we encounter such a young individual with such brazen behavior that he feels not that he's merely <em>able</em> to operate with an adult's social capabilities, but that he's in fact <em>entitled</em> to operate in such capacities.

While I realize that this boldness and brashness can be jealously misconstrued as simple pomp... this kid has true (thought perhaps not intellectual) genius and is certainly nothing akin to anything as depraved as, say, a Paris Hilton.

My official diagnosis is that he is a Factor 1 psychopath exhibiting symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder for positive effect according to PCL-R Model of psychopathy.

Alex behaviour demonstrates a strong correlation with the known symptoms of psycopathy including: glib and superficial charm, grandiosity, need for stimulation, pathological lying, conning and manipulating, lack of remorse, callousness, poor behavioral controls, impulsivity, irresponsibility, failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.

I recommend that he eats humble pie three times a day before he gets his just desserts, after all you are what you eat.

I'm off to pop a few jealously tablets.

Can't find a link at the moment; maybe someone else has read about it?

I think the parents have done a pretty good job.