OMG you'll never guess what I've just discovered or how relevant it is. This photo from Alice's instagram:
Now you remember we were discussing how a narc is grown? Nature or nurture? Etc.
Well I decided to a deep dive. Alice's mother was Janet, nee Dowell, born to William and Elsie in 1940. They were married in 1934.
Elsie was born in 1900 (took some time to find that out) so she was 34 when married and nearly 40 when she had Janet.
Still haven't found out her date of death yet so if I can make a joke of it, the vampire genes run strong in that family.
ANYWAY I figured that if Janet was an only child, born after difficulty to aging parents who thought they'd never have a child that might explain the start of the narcissism. That was yesterday's work.
But for that explanation to work I had to be sure there were no other children. That is this morning's work. Guess what I found this morning? Janet had an older brother. And not just ANY older brother. NOOOO. Janet's older brother is emeritus professor at
University of Birmingham He's a physicist. In Hamburg, he helped develop detectors for the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Geneva and was involved in the
ATLAS experiment which discovered the
Higgs boson.
John Derek Dowell, particle physics educator. Recipient Rutherford medal and prize Institute Physics, 1988. Fellow Royal Society (council 1997-1998, vice president 1998), Institute Physics, American Physical Society.
prabook.com
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986
[2] and a
Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003.
[3]
In July 2002, a symposium was held in his honour, as he retired in September of that year.
[4]
en.wikipedia.org
Now lets go back to Alice's father, David Evans a British
applied mathematician noted for his contributions to
water waves and
acoustics. He is an
emeritus professor of
Applied Mathematics at the
University of Bristol.
He is known for the Bristol cylinder, a
wave energy converter.
The 21st International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies 2006 was dedicated to Evans on the occasion of his retirement.
en.wikipedia.org
So Janet's brother went on a distinguished career in physics and academia and her husband had a distinguished career in applied mathematics and academia. Janet was an English literature teacher.
I don't know much about narcissism but interested in what those of you who do know about it think about this family background.