I have been struggling with this because a lot of people around me use it in this manner when they do something dumb or they act in an awkward way and they’ll be like “oh, that was autistic of me” or “I’ve got the tism” and I always feel so uncomfortable but I also don’t know how to raise it or what to say. I am myself not diagnosed, but I’m pretty sure I am on the spectrum. I was just wondering what you think of it and how you handle it.
“Narcissist” to describe selfishness is from the 1800s. NPD is from the 1980s.
Surely in 2026, you’ve seen what narcissism had done to the world.
No, I will continue calling our narcissistic and psychopathic behavior for what it is. I will also not be showing any empathy for who, by definition, don’t show any themselves.
Not all mental illnesses deserve our collective support. Comparing it to LGBT people is insane (is insane a slur, too?) and insulting. The closest comparison - and I think this is a stretch - is addiction.
It’s just wild to me that you’re defending narcissism in any capacity.
Narcissus of Greek mythology is literally queer, I’m not comparing anything. Nemesis made him fall in love with his reflection because he didn’t want to marry or have sex.
Ameinias was sexually harassing a 16 year old, and that child told him to go commit die, as teenagers often do when they’re harassed by a bully. Ameinias decides to actually do it, and prays to Nemesis for revenge. He says “Though he should love, let him not have what he loves”, so Nemesis made him fall in love with his reflection. It was a divine punishment for not wanting any fucc.
I think you’re aphobic because you read this myth, and decided to side against the queer kid who was harassed and killed.
You are conflating so many things right now. For someone who keeps harping on the original myths, you sure seem ignorant to the fact that pretty much everyone in Greek mythology is bi. Siding against anyone in any Greek myth usually means you’re “against” someone queer.
You are stretching SO hard to call me queerphobic while ignoring both the classical and modern definitions of the word. It’s akin to saying I hate vegans because I talk shit about Hitler.
Narcissists and psychopaths are not oppressed minorities. Insulting them is always punching up.
Do you have a horse in this race or something?
It’s not that he’s ace and you happen not to like him. It’s that it seems like you specifically don’t like him because he’s ace. At best, you’re victim blaming him for having been killed.
Victim blaming? This sounds like an early 2010s Tumblr caricature as depicted by an alt-right influencer that 99.99% of the left would call an invented strawman. It is beyond parody.
I’m having such a hard time believing anyone would defend narcissists that I’m convinced you’re just trolling me or you’re a narcissist yourself.
People have been making fun of that dead boy for two thousand years and I’m sick of it. He didn’t do anything wrong, he just lived in an aphobic society. I’m asexual and I’m sick to FUCK of seeing people like you walking around with an ancient Greek person’s moral compass when it comes to asexuality. He didn’t abuse anyone, he just wanted to be single. Why do so many people over two thousand years hate a child for wanting to be single?
Is it a pedophilia thing? Are you defending Ameinias’ point of view because you’re a pedophile too?
No one’s dunking on the fictional asexual child, bud. Plus People aren’t thinking about Greek mythology when they use the word.
Nice deflection at the end there, though.
You’re right, it’s not about Greek mythology for most people. I accepted that you were an exception, because earlier in this conversation you claimed it comes straight from Narcissus. But I’m glad I changed your mind, and persuaded you that people aren’t thinking about Greek mythology when they use the word. They’re thinking about ableist portrayals of people with NPD.
They’re thinking about neither, dude. No one gives a shit where the word comes from