Not necessarily. Narcissism and some personality disorders can be something you're born with such as the inability to feel empathy for others. As far as I can tell, Lori has never shown to actually make a true connection with anyone on a personal level and has never shown an ounce of sympathy or empathy towards others. Of course that's not saying she doesn't have trauma that we don't know about, but it's still possible she was just born a "psycho."
That said, plenty of people are born like that but are also self aware that it isn't normal or cohesive to being a member of society. So they know to curb certain behaviors as to blend in.
No one is born with a personality disorder. As amply covered several posts up from mine, a combination of nature and nurture are responsible for how we turn out. The idea that someone can be born “bad” removes any accountability from the family system that was responsible for, among other things, teaching empathy (a skill, not an inborn trait); the capacity for self-control; and emotional self-regulation. Which is to say nothing of the primary caregivers’ responsibility to provide physical and psychological safety, the absence of which in childhood is demonstrably related to pathological behavior in adulthood.
Lori’s a piece of shit but she didn’t come out of the womb that way. It’s possible to recognize this fact (even, dare I say, feel empathy for the child she was, who is gone now) while still demanding that present, adult Lori take accountability for herself and her behavior.


























