ranierean
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I want to say, 'no, never', but I also don't really think it can be as simple as that, or as saying how 'no one can be, regardless, ever,' because even that feels like a cop out?
There were few glimpses of empathy in my life but none of them have ever amounted to anything greater than a fleeting moment that could've just as easily never been there at all, or reading a moving passage from a long dead person somewhere–so it's all mostly masturbatory and shouldn't mean much.
What irks me is not the lack of affirmation and validation per se but the phantom pains by themselves and how they in effect imply that I'm lesser than a hypothetical me that could be seen as more approachable by the outside world?
Shitlib pop-psych says that the worst thing you could do to a narcissist is to feed them, inadvertently or not, because it could never be read and digested properly, it's just how these people are–it's cartoonishly bleak but it also seems to be true.
There were few glimpses of empathy in my life but none of them have ever amounted to anything greater than a fleeting moment that could've just as easily never been there at all, or reading a moving passage from a long dead person somewhere–so it's all mostly masturbatory and shouldn't mean much.
What irks me is not the lack of affirmation and validation per se but the phantom pains by themselves and how they in effect imply that I'm lesser than a hypothetical me that could be seen as more approachable by the outside world?
Shitlib pop-psych says that the worst thing you could do to a narcissist is to feed them, inadvertently or not, because it could never be read and digested properly, it's just how these people are–it's cartoonishly bleak but it also seems to be true.
