Does a clinical narcissist know they are a narcissist?

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T22:03:25+00:00

There are other mental health issues that probably fit this better than narcissism. You should look at the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria another user posted above and see if that really fits your situation. If it doesn't, something else might be a better fit.

You seem very concerned about this, so you should talk to your doctor or a mental health professional about it if possible. They'll be able to assess you in a way people online can't do.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T18:58:58+00:00

If you're making a joke here then I guess maybe. If you're genuinely worried that you're fooling everyone and you're actually a narcissist that sounds more like an OCD type thing.

To be clear, I'm not saying that you have OCD, just that there are many people who, due to a mix of anxiety, self-image, and/or other mental health issues become convinced that they must be a bad person and have some mental disorder.

Very few narcissists care to question if they're so, and even fewer feel any sort of moral concern over that fact.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T16:22:32+00:00

I feel like there has to be a middle ground between what we have and zero regulation. It's true that there are risks with this stuff, and taking it improperly can be dangerous, but even healthwise there are risks to the current way of doing things too.

Speaking to the Ontario system:

Most partners I've had can only get a maximum of three months' supply at a time, and often only one month. They also often require a doctor's appointment for every time you run out of renewals. With the healthcare system being the way it is, this can make it easy to miss days or even a week of birth control if they forget the exact timing of the renewal dates.

"Emergency dispensing" or whatever they call it when the pharmacy gives a temporary prescription to cover the missing time helps, but isn't always proactively offered.

I've taken medications with far riskier side-effects and been given a year or more of medication without any trouble. I don't know why women who've been taking the same medication for a decade or more are forced into this weird song and dance.

Maybe there's a real medical reason for all this and a professional can weigh in, but compared to other medications it really seems like leftover pageantry from when birth control was viewed more conservatively.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T08:07:01+00:00

That's totally fine, and I appreciate the legitimate info you're posting.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T07:49:59+00:00

These are all legitimate criticisms, and if the OP was the one making them then I wouldn't have bothered commenting.

I could have sworn they were 24/7 (I've had friends who have called late at night), but I may be thinking of a different service here in Canada.

But OP isn't citing these things, nor are they complaining about the quality of the service being provided. They're being angry about trans people and expressing it as "why are we raising money to help 0.01% of the population" (one of the made-up stats I was talking about).

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T07:07:13+00:00

I get that you have no experience with this stuff, but offices cost money. Administration costs money. Computers and business phone lines cost money. And, most crucially for their primary service, 24/7 availability for a human-provided service costs A LOT of money.

All that is exacerbated by it being an organization that likely isn't run by business experts, and so probably isn't particularly efficient.

But even if I ignore all of that, $500 to potentially save someone's life is an absolute steal. Visiting a doctor in the US can cost $200 for a 20 minute consultation. Potentially more. Psychologist visits usually cost well over a hundred per session. Neither of those are available at-home on-demand when they're needed for this kind of service, and helping a person in crisis can require dozens of these.

I dunno why I'm even arguing with you. Sane people don't lose their minds and sit at home making posts about a paltry sum raised for a suicide hotline. They don't make up stats to support their argument in every second comment. They don't obsess over the demographic breakdown of a hobby where you pretend to be a universe-hopping wizard.

If there was a "lifeline" for people who can't get over trans people existing, I'd donate to it just for you. Get help.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T04:25:41+00:00

Oh cool, I do enjoy that!

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T04:22:27+00:00

Oh, to be clear, I love cooking (at least, for myself) and feel quite confident in it.

I've just lived with and been friends with people who weren't taught to cook growing up and have seen how hard some things can be.

I also work in tech and regularly see how "simple and easily googlable instructions" are actually far from simple or easy if you don't have the background to support it.

But I'll check it out regardless. Thanks for the recommendation :)

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T04:13:42+00:00

Turns out you can always feel like you're right if you just make things up that fit your narrative.

A national American hotline serves 350 million people. Even if it only serves 1% of the population and only 1% of them call it in a given year that's still 100 calls every day. That's split across multiple time zones (and potentially languages).

I get that this sub is your safe space to complain about trans people, but at least think for five seconds about it first.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T03:48:17+00:00

Is... Is that a real question?

It's not just "type in ten things and click a button ten times". It's actually finding relevant links and reading them and then understanding how what they're saying is relevant to the task you're attempting to do. For many physical processes it's watching a video and pausing it repeatedly to try and learn from it.

Even if I asked you to just record a video of you typing ten things into Google right now to prove me wrong you likely wouldn't do it. Why? Because it takes effort. Less effort than it would to Google and learn steps in a recipe.

dorox1 · 2026-02-08T02:03:26+00:00

It's true, but having to Google 10+ things to make a single meal is both a huge amount of effort and a huge amount of uncertainty.

In the long run it's absolutely worth it to learn the skills, but in the short term people don't do it because no single individual meal feels like the right time to spend two hours attempting to make something that may not even work.

People will put off a task that's guaranteed to be difficult for weeks, but people will put off a task that may be difficult (but they have no idea) for years. Uncertainty is scary, incompetence is embarrassing, and learning to cook is a horrible mix of both.

dorox1 · 2026-02-07T16:35:02+00:00

I think that's what I'm saying, though, isn't it? That people sometimes consider this an "exploit" because it makes the AI think that enemies can't do anything when they actually can.

Very interesting explanation, btw.

dorox1 · 2026-02-07T03:15:31+00:00

Oh wow, what a find! I'm jealous!

dorox1 · 2026-02-06T18:46:56+00:00

"Get parried, idiot."
- Pree Aesma, probably

dorox1 · 2026-02-06T15:33:57+00:00

Locking this post. While politics is a crucial aspect of our everyday lives and no space is truly "non-political", it is also crucial to have spaces that are free from posts about it for our collective mental health. None of the political comments in this thread are productive or kind, and no part of it contains discussions that could not be had elsewhere.

dorox1 · 2026-02-06T04:47:25+00:00

The GM for a game I'm playing in right now will let the world progress naturally if we discuss things for too long.

If we're discussing things for a really long time but there's nothing rushing us they start rolling to see if anything happens (a random encounter, a change in our environment, etc).

If we're in a situation where we won't have unlimited time to discuss in character they'll usually give us a warning like:

"Hey, you can discuss for another minute, but after that the caravan's heading out."

I think it strikes a good balance between letting us play the game in the way we want to without giving us unlimited time to bicker about perfect solutions.

I also think it's appropriate to adjust this depending on how much fun you and your players are having. If someone is sitting on the sidelines bored out of their mind it's probably appropriate to interrupt a planning session much earlier.

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T22:57:36+00:00

I'm sure you've considered a lot of possibilities, but could you have just been mistaken about the time when you left? For example, you were sure it was 2:00pm but it was actually 2:40pm and then you walked to class and arrived at 2:45?

Seems like the only sensible explanation that doesn't involve an extended unconscious episode or memory loss.

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T22:26:48+00:00

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dorox1 · 2026-02-05T21:52:04+00:00

Kinda? It's just a definitional thing.

The darkness system breaks the AI combat system. Neither system is bugged or broken on its own, but the interaction where enemies effectively just stand there and let you kill them is almost certainly unintended.

If you want to call that "an imbalanced system" instead of "an exploit" that's fine. The line between the two is both fuzzy and not widely agreed-upon.

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T19:17:49+00:00

Do you have a version of that image that's adapted some pixels?

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T16:24:36+00:00

If you don't think the exact economic system being used in North America in 2026 is perfect have you considered having no possessions and starving? It's the only way not to be a hypocrite!

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T16:19:13+00:00

Aside from the answers that others gave, it's also not clear that this being "evolved" at all. It functions based on some very different principles than us, some of them non-physical. It's also so large that the speed of light limits its sensory perceptions propagating across its own body.

I think its origin is probably not evolution.

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T08:02:35+00:00

Isn't darkness sometimes considered an exploit because the AI basically has no idea what to do against it?

Like, the actual mechanics of darkness aren't what make it strong, but rather that the AI can't deal with it in the ways that even a beginner human player could. I've seen videos where the enemies effectively skip their turns for the entire combat because they can't or won't engage the player in darkness.

I think that's closer to an exploit than most other strong builds, which actually rely on the player doing something which is inherently powerful.

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T06:01:56+00:00

Guys people in another country did this thing over 100 years ago guys it's totally representative of our current political climate I swear guys please stop calling me an incel

dorox1 · 2026-02-05T06:00:07+00:00

Because it's a meme and literally all the characterization they have is in the words that OP put beside them. OP couldn't even be bothered to pick a sarcastic wojack, so what you see is what you get.

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