Another key trait is that they never take responsibility. Someone who’s a narcissist is incapable of offering a true apology. If something doesn’t go as planned, they’re never going to take ownership of that. They’re always looking for scapegoats or other ways to blame and shame others and deflect any true responsibility they have, because if they had to admit that they did something wrong, that whole facade I’ve been talking about would crumble to the ground.
The next trait is a lack of empathy. And this one is incredibly difficult for people to understand, because it’s hard for those of us with empathy to imagine someone without it. Empathy is the ability to feel for someone else. It’s like if you watch somebody trip and hurt themselves or drop their stuff on the sidewalk next to you, someone who has empathy would be like, “Oh my God, I’m so sorry, let me help you.” And they would assist because they could imagine what that would feel like, or watch a TV show or the news segments, especially in the last two years, when the news has been incredibly difficult. You can watch the news and cry because you can feel for those people.
Someone with narcissistic tendencies or someone with narcissistic personality disorder doesn’t feel like that. They’re actually incapable of feeling empathy or putting themselves in someone else’s shoes. And instead, what they tend to do is they tend to assume or expect us to think and feel just like them. And when we don’t, they can get really upset and lash out.
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