#what is a narcissistic sociopath

[truelovescamrecovery]

Narcissist? Sociopath? What...?

Narc, narcissist, sociopath, psychopath. Call them whatever you like, as long as you truly know what you're facing and what that means.

Narcissist or sociopath? Sociopath or narcissist..? Or just narcissistic? Please… know what you’re truly facing. Narcissist or sociopath…? There’s a feeling for many people that a “narcissist” isn’t a sociopath. The category of NPD is thought by lots of people to be different and “better” – meaning not as bad as a sociopath. It’s normal to hope that someone is not “as bad” as something that’s…

[pastelchad]

I know it’s common for RE fans to lament the fact that Leon never got to live his dream of being a cop but I feel like he was going to have a severely rude awakening resulting in the loss of his innocence either way. His chief of police was a serial rapist and murderer who liked to taxidermy his victims’ bodies. In an AU where umbrella never existed and there’s no zombies he most likely would have been harassed/threatened off the force bc he tried to expose Irons.

[dykedvonte]

I beg people in the MW to think very carefully when they talk about mental illness and physical disability cause it’s not as straight forward and easy to diagnose/depict as you think…

[carnage-cathedral]

there are literally entire tags and blogs on here devoted to the demonization and hatred and destruction of people with npd I'm gonna fucking throw up you people are all fucking disgusting

[shxt-they-say]

tell me without telling me: you have weapons in your arsenal, pt. 1

story time!

unbeknownst to me, in 2023, a new partner of mine [3-4 months officially together at the time] went through my cell phone while i was sleeping on night one of a week-long cruise. he found a conversation from 2019 between me (a female) and a guy friend, where we mostly talk like bros. there were some flirts in there, because while single in my 20's - why the hell not?! i'm one of those people that will talk to anyone about anything, no judgements and barely any boundaries. i like to make people feel comfortable whether an old friend, a family member, or somebody i meet at a bar on a random tuesday evening.

that being said, me and this friend would talk about everything BUT serious topics, ie: the most outlandish reactions to somebody being nice to us or sex - but hear me out! "i'm going to c*m so hard when we win rick & morty trivia" is the type of sexual exchanges we would make. we thought it was hilarious, my partner did not.

regardless, the cruise was great and i thought it brought us a lot closer as a couple. two weeks later, i told my partner i wanted to introduce him to my family. my brothers live in different states and we were all going to be together for a weekend, so i invited my partner to dinner at my mom's house. at first he said he would come. then, two nights before the big day, he told me i was untrustworthy and that i was cheating on him. that he saw the conversation with my friend and that i clearly fucked this guy, plus! i still talk to him and that's not right. [i was at work when this happened, so i couldn't talk to him about it until later.] he hung up on me and didn't talk to me for the rest of the night. the next day i still didn't hear from him. i couldn't understand where any of this was coming from! i texted him that i had LONG forgotten about the conversations my guy friend and i used to have YEARS ago and that what he was thinking is not true.

the day came and i went to my mom's house alone still not having heard back from him. i greeted my brothers, their partners, and my mom wholeheartedly, but they were expecting a plus one. i told them my partner works early mornings and is probably home getting ready or, worst case scenario, sleeping. i wasn't sure if he was going to make it all the way over to us before the end of the night so we carried out our time together without him. we ate, we drank, we laughed, we had a great time!

the next day, my partner called me. he asked me how my night went. i told him it was good, that i was hoping he would come because it would've meant a lot to me. he told me he would have come if i called him, but he didn't know if i wanted him there. my mind was blown. all that time he wasn't speaking to me over an old text thread, but a simple call would've erased it all? something wasn't adding up, but we moved on and were fine again. this was one of the first #narcissistic flags i should've noticed, but didn't until now. the way he gave me the silent treatment, didn't acknowledge going through my phone was wrong, and basically "punished" me by not coming to meet my family made me feel like iiii was the one in the wrong. I COULDN'T EVEN THINK TO EXPRESS HOW I FELT THAT HE VIOLATED MY PRIVACY BY GOING THROUGH MY PHONE! man, was i in for a rollercoaster of emotions.

like, reblog, and/or let me know if something like this has ever happened to you in the comments!

[chrkrose]

You're in the wind, I'm in the water

Nobody's son, nobody's daughter

chemtrails over the country club by Lana Del Ray

[sebdoesthings]

I'm not neurotypical enough for "hey how are you?" Or "everything alright?" Like if you got grievances then just spill it, otherwise we'll go ahead with regular programming and i'll tell you about this thing i'm obsessed with

[unkindsunshine]

the amount of people who have a flat understanding of tashi duncan will be my undoing.

[nrhodact]

I want to make a test similar to the Vito Russo, Duvernay, and Bechdel test but for asexuals in media.

The NRHODACT Test (I'm not good at names ok and similar to how things are named after the person that created it, I'm gonna roll with it for now lol.)

Rules for an asexual character to pass as good representation

- 1 or more asexual characters must be present in the story

- Audience must know the character is asexual through the story not by information outside of it. (Writers revealing the character is ace through their social media, Livestreams, Live Q&A)

- They must be relevant to the story. (If the story can function without them, they are irrelevant)

- Their sexuality must be taken as seriously as any other sexual orientation. (No invalidation by the other characters unless said characters are meant to be in the wrong and are reprimanded for it later on. Invalidation includes characters of other sexual orientations claiming their struggles are worse than theirs, making light of their asexuality, treated as less of an adult for being asexual, if it is a show centered around LGBTQ+ characters sexualities, the asexual character should have equal attention brought to their orientation)

[homeworkreminder]

If you're a licensed therapist and make tiktok or reels or shorts or whatever talking about trauma recovery and specifically painting all abusers as narcissists and tagging your posts as npd, I believe your license should be revoked and you should be not allowed the chance to practice in any type of medical field, or any field that requires professionalism.

[ailurosacolyte]

yknow it's really funny to me that our society picked up mental health awareness as a source of virtue signaling, but only extended it to the "trendy" and "quirky" mental illnesses/symptoms. neurotypical people talk about their special interests and stims, but get uncomfortable around autistic folks who are non-verbal. they say that they have horrible anxiety because they don't like phone calls, but don't know how to be around anyone in the midst of a nervous breakdown. they talk about "not having enough spoons" after getting home from a day of work at their office job, but look down upon folks with chronic fatigue or depression when they don't have the energy to participate in group activities. they say that they're ocd because they like keeping their desk organized, but get disturbed when someone with ocd has a breakdown due to their symptoms. ptsd is only okay when you give it to your anime husbando in your hurt/comfort fanfic, because people with ptsd in real life are uncomfortable to be around due to their trauma. the list goes on

[truelovescamrecovery]

Why Do We Believe Lies?

Why do we believe the lies the narcissist or sociopath tells? Because we're normal. It's normal to believe what people say. It's normal to make sense of things that seem odd.

Why do we believe the lies the narcissist or sociopath tells? Because we’re normal. It’s normal to believe what people say. Here’s the thing, it’s normal to believe other people. believing others is hard-wired into our normal human hearts. We’re born this way. We trust and believe others as such a regular part of life, it’s something we barely notice. Continue reading Why Do We Believe Lies?

[ph-cutie]

my favorites are the ones describing evrart the same way that AITA posters talk about their mothers in law

im sorry ill never not be a little amused by the reddit phenomenon of DE fans that despise every character other than kim and like some irrelevant npc a la anette. if you think dora and klaasje and liz are cunts and the kids are unbearably annoying and you dont want to help evrart like What are you getting out of this exactly

[charlottesweetly]

so many of taylor bickett's lyrics piss me off but i cant stop listening to her songs bc shes so charlottecoded

[shxt-they-say]

you are naturally meant to rise above pt. 1

"some people will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience because that's what they're used to... don't let anybody take you out of your character"

[vtkuu]

Alex Hirsch on writing Bill's unreliable narrator perspective:

"I sort of leave it to the reader to try to pick through what is a lie what is true, and more interestingly, what is something that Bill says that's a lie literally, but is a truth metaphorically?

I think sociopaths, cult leaders— they're such narcissists that they often tell on themselves, even when they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes, they can't help it. They'll kind of admit to something they've done, because they sort of want the credit, then they'll create plausible deniability and act like it never happened.

You know, Robert Durst, the rich serial killer lunatic […] he got away with three murders, and he would have gone to his grave with those three murders. But they made a documentary and they said, "can we interview you?" And he's like, "of course you can, you need to hear my side of the story!" Because he's so convinced that he's a genius, he can't help himself. They say that murderers often return to the scene of the crime, well, that's a crazy thing to do. But there's this ego involved. So, a character like Bill is going to deny a hundred things while kind of hiding a confession inside those denials. And that seemed interesting to me to explore."

~ Full interview with the Syosset Public Library here.