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"The narcissists I see online don't write about their relationships with their children and close friends; they hardly write about their own partners, except as
by golemotron 5y ago
"The narcissists I see online don't write about their relationships with their children and close friends; they hardly write about their own partners, except as props in the narcissist's ongoing drama."
The writer seems very confident of their assessment of various people online.
- TameAntelope 5y agoSo? Swap "narcissists" with "people who exhibit some specific shared traits between one another that are also often described as part of the diagnostic criteria of a narcissist" and you get the same effect. It's a shortcut, not a diagnosis. Layperson English tends to be that way, and getting caught up on the different definitions between medicine and "common" speak is likely a waste of time.
- golemotron 5y agoConsidering that some degree of narcissism is part of everyone's psyche, using it as a label and associating it with extreme cases makes it close to an epithet. I have no doubt that many of the people one might see as extreme or "obvious" narcissists might have the same opinion of those who use that language. It's nearly comical at that point.
- DarylZero 5y agoNarcissism is something that normal adults grow out of, although they can still act childishly _at times_. But for some people, the growth never happens at all.