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It's interesting to read that you slowly shift the narrative from accepting your faults to making excuses to blame externalities, like inherited narcissism and
by runald 4y ago
It's interesting to read that you slowly shift the narrative from accepting your faults to making excuses to blame externalities, like inherited narcissism and ADHD. Look the word up, it's essentially an umbrella term that pretty much describes anything that can be considered negative, almost to the point that it's meaningless, except as a convenient tool to antagonize people. Selfishness and self-admiration is spectrum, everyone possess it one way or another. To claim otherwise is inhuman. Clearly, there are actual extreme narcissists, but they are not as frequent as people use the term loosely nowadays. Disclaimer: not a psychologist, but probably neither are you.
- aexer0e 4y agoI don't think he was trying to justify or excuse his way out of his bad qualities in the second part; It felt more like he was pinpointing the reason. I'd say it's okay for people to give reasons for bad actions as long as they they still admit to wrongdoing and don't use that reason as an excuse for it being okay.
- geocrasher 4y agoIndeed. It wasn't justification any more than Root Cause Analysis is making excuses for a systems failure.
- alphydan 4y ago> Look the word up, it's essentially an umbrella term that pretty much describes anything that can be considered negative I suggest you look up the difference between the common sense of the word narcissism and the psychiatric diagnosis (which has a more rigorous and specific definition).