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Worth keeping in mind the reason NPD happens is when a child is abused and does not develop an inherent sense of their own self worth, one possible coping mechanism is to create a false ego, which by necessity is bigger than a healthy person's ego so it can have resilience and redundancy. It's brittle, fragile, so they build it bigger. If a pwNPD had a normal size ego, being delicate as it is it would shatter in an average day from all the normal ego damage that people naturally need to endure.

The narcissism of NPD isn't a disorder. It's more like a blood clot, a scab. If you tear a scab off, you'll just make someone bleed again. It's the same with NPD. Damage to the ego is what causes the actual damage to the person. That, and discrimination. The disorder is the state of the brain being injured and needing that barrier in place to be functional. We consider narcissism part of the disorder of NPD in the same way we consider a scab to be a part of a wound.

A lot of people say "stop being narcisstic! Get a smaller ego, and your disorder will go away!" That isn't how mental disorders work. It's dangerous advice that can and does get people seriously hurt. A person living with NPD who loses their grandiosity can suffer trauma, can self harm, can take action that results in loss of relationships and jobs, and can even attempt suicide.

NPD rights!

This article seems strangely lacking in how it wants this goal to be achieved.

The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy

I want to subscribe to NASA not understanding women facts

Yeah I don't understand how a parent can not think deeply about their relationship with their kids. I don't think there should be such a thing as "thinking too deep" about anything to do with how to raise a kid.

Nah, readability is low and you can't divide by three OR five easily. Binary has even fewer prime factors than decimal.

Meanwhile I'm bucking trends as an advocate of the dozenal metric system.

Americans are still using monarchy units while the rest of the world is on freedom units.

Fuck your decimal system. Dozenal is the most intuitive number system. Arithmetic is so much easier to learn in dozenal and you can even count higher on your hands if you use phalanges instead of fingers. Base 10 is a crap number system. It's barely composite, it only has two prime factors.