FromPieces
It was years and years ago last I played but Minecraft used to be my audiobook accompaniment like you’re describing. That and Kerbal Space Program
Knowing nothing else about this man, from your narration, we at least know he is using his bourgeoisie privilege to in part support a comrade (you) and so is not worth nothing? Does that rehabilitate him in your mind?
(first time seeing this and now playing catch-up from the first chapter)
Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure.
Oof. I have experienced this from my family (brothers and mom) so many times throughout my childhood, teens, and early adulthood and probably still would if I still talked to them.
I would talk about my pain and the response was to defend women, which, if I were attacking women, would be perfectly appropriate. But I wasn’t attacking women, I was expressing my pain. That pain was never heard and was instead invalidated as an attack on women.
Wait a minute…
It appears the patriot who performed this public service has not yet been apprehended!
OP: “god, it’s hard being a paraplegic and trying to run…”
You: “guys, don’t listen to this asshole, being a paraplegic means you can’t run. If this person were actually NPD, it would be an extremely positive sign for them to seek to improve themselves and since we can see this person trying to improve themselves, they are clearly lying and manipulative. Classic NPD.”
Log off and touch grass. You can come back when the stench of your self righteous diarrhea of the mouth fades.
I think you raise a very valuable point here. “Narcissist” is so often used simply as a label for the villain with no consideration for the terms use as a medical diagnosis.
In your case, you may be labeled a narcissist but you make a continual conscious effort to account for the weaknesses implicit in that diagnosis. This is different from the vitriolic insult so often used to condemn people.
This is a failure on our part, in the way we use the term. You may be (technically) a narcissist, but, you are not “evil” in the way that others popularly labeled “narcissists” are. You are a good person.