internet pop psychology terms like "narcissist," "toxic," etc are a rly scary carceral identity based thinking - creates a "mental disorder" that just defines a person as "evil and always will be"
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The most important human quality is Empathy and therefor those who lack Empathy are not fully human
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I remain constantly kind of in awe that the irony of the Voight-Kampff test in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner isn't even *that deep* but it's still apparently too deep for half the fans to actually get it
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I kind of wish I’d caught the point where telling people about my ex-fiancée’s behavior started getting us into not just “men sure are—” “hey buddy you sure you want to say that about a trans woman? :)” but interlocutors half-heartedly wrapping it in empathy discourse
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Often, specifically, as a response to me telling them not to, because G–d forbid discussing someone’s abuse mean their feelings are more relevant than the gestalt Feelings Of Victims that you can tell are 100% more realer because they make you feel better than an actual person
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I didn't understand NPD prior to my last relationship... It turns out that personality disorders are in fact a real thing, and until you spend time with someone who has one, it's inconceivable that a person would actually behave in such a "disordered" way. (It won't make sense.)
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But also, the terms are now being thrown around in the popular discourse and being applied to lots of random unrelated behavior. There is a very narrow clinical criteria for NPD, and some humans really do have the disorder. But NPD is *not* "just being an asshole"...
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