Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a lifelong disability and one of the most hated disabilities there is. Subjected to the most brutal stereotyping, which claims that narcissists are inherently evil or abusive. The mechanism of NPD is that without unconditional love from one’s parents, one cannot develop unconditional self-love, which is part of a healthy ego. Narcissists were abused by our parents, and as a result have false, fragile, and unstable egos. The inability to withstand normal ego damage such as constructive criticism or friendly banter, is socially isolating and transforms a narcissist’s perception of social life. Worse, hateful stereotypes lead to abuse of narcissists by the public in the form of harassment, social isolation, intimate partner abuse, villification, and ego attacks intentionally designed to take advantage of a narcissist’s disability.
The term “narcissism” entered the public vernacular with Christopher Lasch’s 1979 book The Culture Of Narcissism, which claims that clinically diagnosable narcissism (NPD) is becoming more common and more acceptable in american culture. This kickstarted a wave of self-help books which sold the idea that all your struggles in life are caused by evil disabled people trying to abuse you. Today, websites like Quora continue to sell this narrative, and it is used by politicians to attack their opponents. Throughout all of this nearly 50 year process, anti-NPD propaganda has seeped into the public, leading to common use of the word, including by people unaware that the villification they hear is of disabled people. Many attack “narcissists” without realising the narcissists they’ve been warned about by these books or other zealots are mentally disordered. Others gleefully state that they are fully aware of the connection, and that they do intend to attack the mentally disordered as they believe NPD causes evil.
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Go stir up shit somewhere else. I’m not interested in arguing with someone fundamentally not grabbing nuances between different disorders and who just wants to argue for the sake of arguing.
Someone made a very conscious choice to create a community explicitly based on hate. I am a disabled person who has been abused because of the hate that is welcomed on that community. I wish not to be abused by hateful people in the future.
And you believe I am the one who longs for conflict.
Holy victim blaming, batman. You are an absurd caricature of a conservative. The mind boggles as it attempts to comprehend the fact that someone who thinks like you exists. I hope you are either educated, or never allowed into a neurodivergent space again.
Considering I am neurodivergent myself and more knowledgeable than you are obviously. I’m sorry you were abused but having an emotional overreaction isn’t going to do any good. Way to assume my background though, you have zero idea what I have or haven’t gone through so you going after me just shows even more that you aren’t worth discussing with cause someone arguing in bad faith isnt having an honest discussion. Either way I have more important things to do than argue with an angry internet stranger who wants to assume things about me. Have the day you deserve.