The French Con Man Who Fooled The FBI — How A 23-Year-Old Impersonated A Missing Texas Boy And Lived With His Family For Months
The more psychologically interesting — and better-supported — answer involves belonging, identity, and recognition.
Bourdin had spent his life feeling unseen and uncared for.
The social systems he inserted himself into — the schools, the shelters, the families — provided something he craved: attention, care, and a specific identity that people related to in a consistent way.
When he was a missing child, he was embraced, protected, attended to.
He had a name, a history, a family context.
He was someone.
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