Everyone warned me about him. I didn't listen. Figured the track record would speak for itself and, well, it did lolololol.
He kept telling me, "Your brain injury makes you a liability".
Weird thing to say to someone whose specs you couldn't touch. That's not pattern recognition. That's reading the warning label and skipping the product entirely.
Here's what actually happened. He showed my family exactly who he was and who others had warned me about. The diagnosis didn't reveal my liability. His fixation on it revealed his.
Turns out the only thing my brain injury made visible was the person I'd been warned about all along: a liar and a narcissistic sociopath, just like they had warned.
The partner didn't last. The brain injury did. The career kept shipping. Funny how the real liabilities rarely come with paperwork.
Patch Adams had it right. Names, not diagnoses. Although, the diagnosis everyone game them and we witnessed, lying narcissistic sociopath is accurate, so I'm a bit hypocritical here.
Back to the point.
A diagnosis can be a timestamp. It tells you something happened. Says nothing about what happens next.
But character? Character is a leading indicator.
Lawyers plus truth equals outcomes 😄
We smiled.
They cried and lots of cops at their house. as they unraveled.