Nah, I think it's just good old-fashioned Narcissistic Personality Disorder. (http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/narc) No, seriously. I think Laurell's got NPD.

If it's true, I feel SO bad for her kid. Children of NPDers have hellish lives.

(Of course, maybe she isn't. Maybe she's a great mom who loves her kid and devotes her life to raising a decent, productive member of society. Who the hell knows? I'm not casting aspirations on LKH specifically; just NPDers.)