• tubaruco@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    he does not refer to anyone as he is too self-obsessed for that

    edit: narcissism is a mental illness, i’m sorry if i offended anyone. when i made the comment i thought i could use it as a way of saying he’s self-obsessed, and knowing very little about mental illnesses i didnt even know NPD was a thing. if the term self-obsessed is also bad, please give me ideas for what i should change the word into

    • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Elon Musk enjoys Elon Musk’s name so much that Elon Musk has no pronouns. You may only refer to Elon Musk as Elon Musk.

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      He’s not a narcissist, and you shouldn’t be insulting people by calling them that. Narcissists are disabled people and Elon Musk is an asshole. Those are not the same thing.

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          Thank you. I don’t expect anyone to know that if they haven’t been told. You’re actually doing a million times better than a lot of people who get defensive in situations like this. Thanks for being an ally to the disabled community

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      8 months ago

      Elon Musk isn’t a narcissist. People with NPD are disabled victims of child abuse who are unfairly hated by bigots. Elon Musk is a bigoted asshole who has lived a life of tremendous privilege. As you can see, these two things are opposites.

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      Narcissism has been used to refer to very toxic personality traits since forever, and you can use the word to describe an asshole who is a narcissist. A patient with NPD is someone who accepts that those traits are negative and is trying to outgrow them, which is definitely not all narcissistic people.

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        oh cool so i didnt have to edit… but i’ll leave it like that since it seems some people got offended.