GO VOTE!

by Quercus

There are 26 days left to vote on The ACoN Society's poll on Parental Contact (see side bar).

At time of posting, it's an even split between "Low Contact ACoNs" and "No Contact ACoNs".

There have been just 28 anonymous votes so far - I would like encourage you to vote! These stats are obviously more for interest's sake than for research purposes (results of all polls will be posted on The ACoN Society for the benefit of our community).

This really does fall under the category of "Just for Fun", so if you aren't comfortable clicking on a circle, no worries on our end! But choosing your category does help others to know what the readership of ACoN blogs are like (for example: at present, around 11% of viewers (extrapolated from voters) are still living with their NParents. Therefore, articles on how to stay safe and survive the tempest are relevant. Half of ACoNs who have moved out from under their NParents still have some contact with them - from reading just the comments, I would have guessed that they would have constituted a small minority (maybe 20%), certainly not 50% of ACoN readers!).

Again, it's all "Just for Fun", but I wanted to do a post to remind folks just in case the opportunity had passed them by (the poll isn't exactly the most visible aspect of The ACoN Society blog!).

For the next poll, I'd like to ask one of the following questions:

As an ACoN, are you currently receiving cognitive/psychotherapy, or have you received therapy in the past?

Do you have a narcissistic friend (or friends)?

Is your parent "engulfing" or "ignoring" (or a little of both or neither)?

Do you believe your parent also suffers from an additional personality disorder (Borderline, Antisocial, Histrionic, etc.)?

Will you plan to attend your NParent's funeral?

Have medications helped you to manage your ACoN-associated anxiety or depression?

Thoughts on those? Let me know if you've got a poll question you'd like to see answered - I know there are so many things I'm curious about regarding the ACoN community as a whole.

Free online surveys (like those from Survey Monkey) allow for longer quizzes - it would be great to have a comprehensive ACoN Experience Survey available in the future. Maybe it's just me, but I'm always interested in facts like "90% of respondents said....". 

(I'm sure the American ACoNs are getting their fill of "polls" these days with the upcoming presidential elections, so apologies for yet another "Go Vote" reminder!) And that reminds me - Narcissists in Politics! What an interesting post that would be! Any takers? Send it in for inclusion here, or let us know if you post your own!