#is this narcissism

[solunest]

Alright- I did a little more digging and actually looked at the one other work of yours that had more specific passages of the uh, daycare/orphanage fire. And what do you know, I found them in "Bonus Round".

I guess my brain blended what I saw from there and assumed there was a POV of what happened in the fic. But anywho, no need to worry about it, I'm just a bit dillusional-

Thanks for attempting to find it with me, though. Love your art, and it was fun going through the fic again. (I caught myself stopping a few times to reread some paragraphs in each chapter-)

Now have an Eclipse:

MY BOY!!! :D

Oh, thank you tis was scraping around for so long ^^; the burning of the orphanage does happen and he does eventually GET there, just. Isn't there when it starts and is haphazardly evacuated.

...how unfortunate.

[th1rdt3chnician]

who up hating pop psychology

[soft-bunnyy-bby]

me and my silly little yandere playlist against the world.

[quitblamingnarcissism]

Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

[psychotic-tbh]

Stop saying…

“Psychotic/Schizophrenic” when you mean: unpredictable, unhinged, unreal, etc.

“Bipolar” when you mean: polarized, scattered, fickle, unstable, etc.

“Delusional” when you mean: unrealistic, unreasonable, close-minded, stubborn, etc.

“[insert “R” slur in relation to intellectual disabilities]” when you mean: unreasonable, unintelligent/ridiculous, immature, etc.

“OCD” when you mean: particular, neat, overbearing, etc.

“Narcissistic” when you mean selfish, abusive, manipulative, etc.

Note: I’m NOT saying that these are synonymous. This is also not an exhaustive list.

[underwhelmingalchemist]

*mom voice* You can get these words back when you know what they mean

[planesofdelusion]

What Narcissism Is:

holding yourself to extremely high standards (if I'm not perfect at it, I'm a failure)

being incredibly sensitive to criticism (becoming suicidal if you think someone thinks you're bad at something)

having a very brittle sense of self-worth that's heavily reliant on what others think of you

What Narcissism is Not:

being uniquely abusive

having no morals

being a bad person

ETA: this is not an exhaustive list of NPD traits! more traits than these are necessary to have NPD! I chose these particular features to emphasize things that aren't often talked about outside of dedicated NPD communities and to highlight the fact that NPD is a disorder based in the internalized fear that you are never good enough.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pierre Narcisse Guerin (French, 1774-1833) Morpheus and Iris, 1811

[uwufollia]

"Mental health matters!!" mfs when they see a person with NPD

[yippeeimmentallyill]

How narc abuse believers sound to me

[localangrygay]

Been a minute 🙋🏼‍♂️

[afriblaq]

They stay obsessed

"Not only that they don't understand the concept of being pro your community, and having pride in who you are without it meaning you hate everyone else. It's because their entire identity is based on hating others, and being in other people's business and oppressing them. No one is ever thinking about them but they are always worried about what we are doing."

[plutonus]

[quitblamingnarcissism]

It's a common pattern that has happened since the beginning of time. When you call out abuse in a way that blames a clear "other", people applaud you. When you call out abuse in a way that requires people to question their own patterns, the same people get defensive.

Call your ex a narcissist and describe him in a way that makes him seem mentally ill, and you'll be supported. Call out systemic male privilege, and you'll be met with hate.

Call your parents narcissists and describe them in a way that makes them seem mentally ill, and you'll be supported. Call out systemic authoritarian parenting, and you'll be met with hate.

[oneinamillion-x]

Guys stop putting "empathy/sympathy." They are not the same thing. Empathy is not "I care about this person," that's what sympathy is. Empathy is "I can understand this person's situation, see myself in their shoes, and experience their emotions as my own."

Empathy ≠ sympathy. They frequently co-exist but they are DIFFERENT.

Not having empathy doesn't mean I don't care about people, it means I can't understand their emotions or correctly imagine myself in their situation.

I can still care without grasping it.

People stop being stupid and misunderstanding what words mean challenge level impossible.