In a sense, I don't believe we have to make speculative diagnoses. Regardless of any diagnosable disorder, Georgina's behaviour (as with any other organism) has causes. Even if she's *just* a 'spoilt brat', the pattern of behaviour associated with that phrase is the result of a complex chain of causation.
In our culture, most people subscribe to the idea that we have 'free will' which is not caused and which enables most of us most of the time to override substantially the causes of our behaviour. I don't subscribe to that and I think it would be great to talk about HMs non-judgementally more like we were observing a group of dolphins or something.
You have to be conistent though. If you seek to explain a HM's 'bad' behaviour as having a cause beyond their control, then there must be the possibility that their 'good' behaviour is equally beyond their control. If you accept 'excuses' for one HM's 'bad' behaviour, how can you reject 'excuses' for another HM's 'bad' behaviour?
In our culture, most people subscribe to the idea that we have 'free will' which is not caused and which enables most of us most of the time to override substantially the causes of our behaviour. I don't subscribe to that and I think it would be great to talk about HMs non-judgementally more like we were observing a group of dolphins or something.
You have to be conistent though. If you seek to explain a HM's 'bad' behaviour as having a cause beyond their control, then there must be the possibility that their 'good' behaviour is equally beyond their control. If you accept 'excuses' for one HM's 'bad' behaviour, how can you reject 'excuses' for another HM's 'bad' behaviour?




) and massively jealous.