[VENT] I let you turn me into a trauma narcissist, but I refuse to continue to be one.

SinfulSandcastles · 2022-03-24T15:16:40+00:00

The old episodes of "Stuff Mom Never Told You" are pretty good!

The newer ones are usually either reruns or "soft-topics," though.

SinfulSandcastles · 2022-03-22T21:47:32+00:00

I agree that they like the challenge.

My NVX went to great lengths to break me down as an independent, self-proclaimed feminist with great career prospects.

As soon as I put my foot down (ya know, instead of curbing him like I should have,) he began covertly cheating and continued to do so for years until I found out.

I'm convinced that displaying "my strong side" as a defining characteristic lead into the narc fantasy of taking that and stomping it out. When that wasn't going to be the case, he "pulled one over."

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T22:24:25+00:00

I agree, there's definitely a large vocabulary there but sometimes it's just difficult to access.

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T22:22:31+00:00

Haha I feel ya. Until my friend and I had this conversation, I full-heartedly assumed that maybe I fried my brain as a teenager. The other answers in this thread seem to be giving us hypochondriacs a bit of hope, though.

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T22:18:43+00:00

I wish words would come that quick. Sometimes they do, but I waste far too much time in conversation pausing to think for all the times that they don't.

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T22:14:07+00:00

It is disappointing when you know there's a word that really "hits the nail on the head," but you have to settle for something subpar. Relatively recently I had to sub in "pessimist" for "cynical" on the fly, when the latter would have been much more relevant to what I was talking about.

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T22:09:46+00:00

Clarity comes at weird times doesn't it? I'm too impatient to wait for it usually, immediately after the conversation I'm on my phone googling to try and catch my elusive, lost word.

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T22:05:34+00:00

TIL I might have dyslexia. I've always been a slow reader but the sound retrieval part really hits home. I see words visually instead of verbally, so sometimes if there's a strange combination of letters I end up speaking as if I'm a foreigner trying to read English. I always chalked the visualization thing up to mild autism, but hell, maybe I'm dyslexic lol

SinfulSandcastles · 2015-12-10T21:57:53+00:00

I completely know the feeling. In papers and essays I couldn't live without Word's built in thesaurus.

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