The hateful, murdering little **** does not deserve any empathy.
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Yes, she hid herself from people until she found a man she thought was a good family person, then revealed herself without actually revealing her age. Thus, freakout occurs.

In the movie without knowing the backstory you get the impression her psychosis is all based on her condition. That she was never accepted or could find normal love because of her condition. With the backstory it makes even more sense why she was psychotic. She was psychotic so her approach to love only made sense in her own head. If you present yourself as a child and get adopted of course the adopted father is going to freak out if you make a move on him. Unless of course he is a sick pedophile. If she had not had that backstory and presented herself another way she might have found people to love her.

She succumbed to illness after a lot of traumatic abuse. She deserved proper care and healing from that.

A person with a condition of dwarfism that she had does deserve a normal life. Her as a person however does not. She was clearly mentally ill and a danger to society.
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she's a psycho.what happiness 4 a normal life and love? she gave that up her first fam killing.
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I think she would have if she'd never killed anyone.

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"Then everyone could go out and kill people just because they had a rough childhood"
That doesn't always have to be a bad thing..
If children are allowed to kill the people who sexually abused them, then pedophilia would (hopefully) get extinct fast..
.. or women who got raped were allowed to murder their rapists, instead of getting arrested for carying a weapen without a permit..
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Oh please, no one's making excuses or giving free passes; obviously she needs mental help, for a long time. But I think she deserves loving care. And it's a little hard to "deal" with something like rape from a parent beginning in infancy when you don't know anything else in life.

Not at all. She was mentally disturbed. Everyone goes through issues in their lives and they deal with them. Giving someone a free pass because they were "abused" or have some condition is absolutely insane. Then everyone could go out and kill people just because they had a "rough childhood".

The trivia explains she was abused by her father starting in infancy, until she killed him at a young age. She'd need severe therapy to recover from that.

The Saarne Institute doctor tells Kate that Esther murdered another family and then burned down their house. Maybe if she had had treatment early in her life she could have become healthy, but in the film's time frame I think it's a bit late for that.
You got your mind right, Luke?

She was mentally unstable. That said, the second time I watched it (knowing the twist), I couldnt help but wonder if her mental instability was a product of her condition and if she would have still been like that had she been able to grow normally.
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Very true But she didn't know that, poor thing; she didn't think they'd accept her.

I have been watching Little Women of LA and they have not trouble finding men. Some Little and some Average size. Esther could look more womanly if she tried. I am sure there are plenty of men who would want her.

No, not an orphanage.

Didn't she burn down an orphanage or something?

Yes, I clearly understood what the link said, supporting my point. I was talking about your words personally.

I have no idea what you mean
Obviously..
When love is a tool to be used to trap and manipulate someone, sociopaths can love.
When love is a shallow lie told for personal gain rather than an expression of connection, sociopaths can love.
When love involves pretending, playing a role to gain something for yourself, then sociopaths can love.
I guess you missed those..?
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I have no idea what you mean, but that shows my point. They can't love, and she not only could, but needed it.

http://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/sociopath/can-sociopaths-love-or-even-fall-in-love/
I can confirm (most of) this is true, as I'm being one myself..
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No, sociopaths have no emotion or need for affection. Exactly the opposite of her.

It was only mentioned that she was dangerously violent..
I think she wasn't a psychopath, she was a sociopath..
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