[ SECRET POST #3543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3543 ⌋

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Comments

Re: DSM-5 Exes, and other adventures in armchair diagnosis

[(Anonymous)]

How is it weird? When narcissists go angling for a new source of narcissistic supply, what could make their current target feel special and different so much as a tale of how unlike the narcissist's terrible ex they are.

Re: DSM-5 Exes, and other adventures in armchair diagnosis

[(Anonymous)]

You are implying that people abused by narcissists are in fact narcissists themselves because they confess to being abused. It's reasoning like this that keeps abuse victims silent.

When someone tells you that they were abused by a narcissist, and your first instinct is to automatically suspect them of being a narcissist, then I have to conclude that either you know nothing about narcissism (hint: it's a lot more complex than ME! ME! ME!), or you are in fact a horrible person.

Re: DSM-5 Exes, and other adventures in armchair diagnosis

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm not implying anything about people abused by narcissists, and nowhere in my comment is their anything to suggest that my "first instinct" is to "automatically" suspect anyone of being a narcissist.

I'm saying that almost certainly, there are narcissists who've learned that claiming to have been abused by narcissists is a great way of enlisting people's sympathy and obtaining narcissistic supply. One way narcissists rope in their targets is by making the target feel special, and what better way to do that than to convey "You understand what I've suffered"? It also makes the target feel responsible for the narcissist's well-being.