• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Elon Musk doesn’t have NPD. And accusing people of being disabled is not an epic burn. It’s only an insult if you think disabled people are worth less than neurotypicals. Sensible people don’t hate the disabled, so calling him a n*rcissist isn’t an insult.

    Calling him neurotypical is a bigger insult. Because it implies that all of his weirdness is a choice.

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      narcissism /när′sĭ-sĭz″əm/ noun

      1. Excessive preoccupation with or admiration of oneself. synonym: conceit. Similar: conceit

      2. A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

      They said ‘his narcissism’ They made no diagnostic qualification.

      Ie. Displaying narcissism and being a narcissist and having a narcissistic personality disorder are all different things with different definitions which can be applied in different ways.