What’s a narcissistic behavior, really?

Tiktok is going crazy about narcissists.
Were all your ex’s narcissists?

Carissimi · 70-79, F

The Woke are narcissistic. No one can disagree with them, or they have a fit, and label you hateful names. I don’t believe they were all born this way, but conditioned into it. I was brought up by a narcissist, although I didn’t realize this until I was in my 50s, and that’s why I despise the Woke so much. They are just like someone I know.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Carissimi I have heard older people say as far back as 30 years ago that Dr. Spock parenting has had a lot to do with it. I think it was happening way before that. I didn’t realize what the hell my father’s problem was but my half-sister who is 8 years older than me remembers coming to stay with him and our mother after they married and she told me that my grandmother doted on my father even when he was in his 30’s and she thought it was because he was her first son. My great-aunt (my grandmother’s sister) doted on her son and he ended up having two families at once, he married a woman and had 3 children. He was a police officer and told everyone he was going to go into business for himself as a private detective. He moved his family into his mother’s basement and did stake-outs at night. When his son from his marriage turned 18 he told his wife he wanted a divorce, he had another woman he was spending his evenings with and they had 5 children. He didn’t want to divorce his wife till the boy turned 18 because he thought he would damage him emotionally if he did (to hell with his two younger daughters though). His mother was still doting on him after he divorced his wife and wouldn’t say anything at all negative about the crap he pulled for over a decade. And she had a son who was a psychiatrist in another state and was the head of the mental health association in that state and she wouldn’t brag on him one bit. Isn’t that something?

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Carissimi also I read a book about 20 years ago where the author had the theory that the reason there are so many more sociopaths now and that they are increasing in number has to do with women getting involved with men before knowing them and getting pregnant…about the time the woman finds out she is pregnant he picks up and moves on to the next woman and repeats the cycle many times and ends up spreading his sociopath genes and increasing the numbers of them in society. Every generation it increases more and more.