Yeah, reading through the first few paragraphs made me think: this is the sort of thing a clever writer puts together before revealing at the end the only narci

Yeah, reading through the first few paragraphs made me think: this is the sort of thing a clever writer puts together before revealing at the end the only narcissist is the person who believes their relationship broke down because of irredeeemable flaws in the other person alone, responded to encountering an impressive individual by furiously searching for gaps in their resume, and maintained an "almost-healthy" transactional relationship with a formerly popular friend as all that person's other relationships soured by constantly letting them have the "credit" for stuff until that person eventually confronted them... But tbf to the author, who is presumably a real person and not a narcissist, I thought the second part was quite well written without that twist :) The general point seems to be that "narcissism exists and is more common and a less clearly defined than the mirror-watching psychopath of popular perception", although perhaps that's a bit too nuanced for parts of the HN audience now furiously insisting that people exhibiting narcissistic traits, unlike people with other spectrum disorders, must be regarded as irredeemable and avoided at all costs...