Meet Alex: New York's Youngest Hustler

The depiction is decidedly not indicative of Williams Syndrome.<p>Rather, what I'd take away (from a cursory level, anyways) is not his glibness and glaringly ostentatious demeanor-- it's his glibness and glaringly ostenation demeanor &#60;em&#62;at such a young age&#60;/em&#62;.<p>Rarely would we encounter such a young individual with such brazen behavior that he feels not that he's merely &#60;em&#62;able&#60;/em&#62; to operate with an adult's social capabilities, but that he's in fact &#60;em&#62;entitled&#60;/em&#62; to operate in such capacities.<p>While I realize that this boldness and brashness can be jealously misconstrued as simple pomp... this kid has true (thought perhaps not intellectual) genius and is certainly nothing akin to anything as depraved as, say, a Paris Hilton.

I think he's probably literally psychopathic. I say this as someone reading who's been reading Wikipedia about the subject for about 5 minutes. <p>My official diagnosis is that he is a Factor 1 psychopath exhibiting symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder for positive effect according to PCL-R Model of psychopathy. <p>Alex behaviour demonstrates a strong correlation with the known symptoms of psycopathy including: glib and superficial charm, grandiosity, need for stimulation, pathological lying, conning and manipulating, lack of remorse, callousness, poor behavioral controls, impulsivity, irresponsibility, failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.<p>I recommend that he eats humble pie three times a day before he gets his just desserts, after all you are what you eat. <p>I'm off to pop a few jealously tablets.

I read about a condition recently that was like the opposite of autism: people with it were extremely socially adept. Sounds like this kid has it.<p>Can't find a link at the moment; maybe someone else has read about it?

I have to wonder if the attention he gets is <i>because</i> of his age. He certainly wouldn't get away with a lot of the things mentioned in the article if he were, say, 20.

So when this becomes a <i>Law and Order</i> episode, will the kid be the victim or the murderer?

I love this kid - he knows what he wants and is able to get them without whining to his parents.<p>I think the parents have done a pretty good job.

Great parenting skills.

Well, not precisely a role model.

Poor kid. His life will suck.

Why has this gotten so many votes?

He's like a tiny Paris Hilton. Except even more worthless, if that's even possible.