• orc girly@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    No need to use medicalized language, you can say asshole. Lots of people are diagnosed as narcissists without doing or wanting to do any of the disgusting shit he did and does. We need to avoid stigmatizing people for their mental conditions, it’s the actions that count and plenty of people act monstrously because of systemic reasons rather than brain chemistry or whatever.

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      9 hours ago

      I upvoted this comment then went out to pull weeds from my retaining wall, considering it much of the time. IThe vast majority of clinical narcissists are rooted in social conditioning, comparatively few medical. There’s no reason to hold any sort of empathy or extra consideration for these people. Call them out. Especially the narcissist rapist in chief.

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        9 hours ago

        I’m close friends with a woman with NPD and she’s nothing like that. Whether we’re born or conditioned to be narcissists the word is still heavily misused and I’m troubled by this kind of assertion because (again) they’re more likely to be victims than abusers.