Oh, they hate to be called out on their self-centredness and selfishness. With my NPD person I quoted her verbatim some insanely selfish statements she'd made in certain contexts and (with those she couldn't deny) she simply refused to process why they were so awful, hurtful and inappropriate.

I went to /b/ once when someone told me to check it out a few years ago.

I've had to deal for decades with a family member who, amongst other personality flaws, likely has NPD (probably the least diagnosed disorder out there given how wonderful they think they are). After a row that challenged her self-perception I surprised her with a brutally honest conversation about why I would be…

"I'm happily married with a baby and a great career, life couldn't be better! Better check my email.... *RECORD SCRATCH* OMIGOD, some rando in his eighties dislikes my "ballooning" figure! OH GOD IT'S ALL MEANINGLESS I'M WORTHLESS UNLESS HE APPROVES ME!"

In his dotage, my father started feeling free to comment on the women in his life who were fat or getting fat. I ignored him or groaned at him or cried in private for a while. Finally, I was driving his almost-blind ass somewhere when he mentioned that the broken seatbelt in his car wouldn't work "because you're too…

My own figure «ballooned» when I had a burnout a couple years ago. Someone from my own family made really mean comments about my weight and I had to cut them out of my life in order to get better. This came after years of being teased, joked about, demeaned and given second-class citizen treatment by this person, my…

Every day I realize I understand men less and less.

I love that the writer is convinced that the loss of a spot in a creepy old (several decades, really guy?) perv's fap file means she'll immediately hop to it and lose a bunch of weight. WHY are all men convinced that we give a fuck whether or not they want to fuck us? Particularly when we aren't even single? Like, if…

"I better hurry and tell all the ladies in the world what my penis thinks of them, so they can base their self-worth around it! You're welcome, ladies."

as someone who has gained weight and went from being openly ogled to basically ignored, i totally get being over it. also, that commenter sucks, i still don't understand how being a fan of someone's work (though i guess he was only a fan of her figure?) makes you feel entitled to controlling someone's physical…

I don't want you to think that the fact that I can't speak or write English on even a third grade level is because I'm a mis- and/or undereducated moron, so I'm going to claim that I speak my own language because, unlike you, I'm never going to have to worry about anything as long as I live and I feel I need to…

Responding über-late to say, "Me too!". I had the strabismus/amblyopia eye-muscle corrective surgery in both eyes in 2010. It was a rough few days where I thought my last problem would be friends and strangers ever asking me if I was sure I was okay to drive. Thick tears (and pools!) of blood, man. Forever. And…

I think I'm desensitized too, but Look at Me and The Next Cabin Over scared me. I think it's the non-supernatural nature that really freaks me out the most. People are scarier than ghosts.

I had that surgery in 1969, when I was 2. For the most part, it's held. If I get very very tired, my left eye floats outward just a little bit, but it is barely noticeable. Also, during allergy season, the little scar in the inside corner of each eye swells a bit and can look kinda grey if you really really look…

Strabismus surgery is painful!! I had vertical and horizontal done on the right and vertical on the left. Worst thing ever. If it went awry again, and my right eye isn't *quite right, I wouldn't repeat it.

My sister had the same thing! One of hers used to pull inwards. I think she was around 6 or 7. Me, being around 10 at the time and a terrible person, was jealous of all the attention she got. Stereotype oldest sibling.

So abrupt!

i died

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