Narcissist is an overused term to describe inconsiderate people..

There is a difference between having a personality disorder and having faults. Anyone can display signs of being a narcissist as most people crave attention and admiration... a lot of people put their own needs before the needs of others.

You ever read those Facebook posts saying "he's a narcissist if he doesn't buy you flowers and criticises you"? Something along those lines...

The truth is most people are on the spectrum to varying degrees and behaviours displayed by narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths etc are to much more of an extreme than say an asshole or a thoughtless person.

There's also this notion that these people hide behind masks, probably I mean we all hide behind masks to some degree we do it to preserve ourselves it is rare that anyone is completely honest.

So how do you find out who is a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath? Get close to them is your best bet because like most people they often reveal more about themselves to people they know however this isn't guaraunteed.

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WhateverWorks · 36-40

I kind of agree and don’t at the same time because there are different reasons someone might be habitually inconsiderate, which aren’t always about an empathy deficit and lifestyle of feeding off people then obliterating them.

I think it’s important to remember that there is a huge difference between someone who has a lot of narcissistic traits versus NPD. That however does not lessen the harm narcissistic traits cause just because they don’t have the full-blown disorder.

The mask someone with narcissistic traits hides behind isn’t a ‘social convention’ mask or even about general dishonesty. It’s a very specific mask of pretending that they empathize with people when they don’t in order to gain access to them and manipulate them.