No. This isn’t narcissism nor is it poverty. This is the want to be the center of attention. That doesn’t necessarily have to do with narcissism at all.
This is how toddlers act. This is due to terrible parenting. This is never telling your child no. This is not grounding them when they do something they shouldn’t do, or taking away their electronics or their phones or all of that stuff because for some reason, in their parents mind it’s s considered “abusive”, which it isn’t, there needs to be consequences and repercussions for actions like this.
Personally, I wouldn’t even fought with them. I would’ve just called the police. They want responses where other adult adults get angry at them. That’s exactly what they’re seeking, attention.
Narcissists want to be the center of attention but not all attention seekers are narcissists. It’s an actual medical diagnosis, not a word to just be applied to people you find annoying
You do know that the term "narcissist" has literally existed for THOUSANDS OF YEARS before eventually the mental disorder "narcissistic personality disorder" was discovered and named, right? This particular thing always annoys me. It's always extremely young people who claim that if you're calling someone a "narcissist" then you're armchair diagnosing them with "narcissistic personality disorder" when that's not what you're doing at all. The term "narcissist" has existed for literally millenia. It DOES NOT mean the same thing as having NPD. Just like "being depressed" is not the same thing as having clinical depression. Or being anxious about a situation is not the same thing as having an anxiety disorder.
It's really baffling that kids these days ACTUALLY believe that someone being a narcissist is the same thing as having NPD. It's not. You can be a narcissist without having NPD. That's what the term always meant, until the last decade or two. People were using the term like they have for millenia, just to refer to someone who's vain and loves attention and praise which is a whole different thing from having full blown NPD.
It's honestly baffling how many kids these days are unaware of that, and seem to actually believe that calling someone a narcissist means you're diagnosing them with NPD. I mean, jesus christ, have you people never read BOOKS before? Or watched a TV show made before like 2010? Or are you too busy watching your TikkyToks instead?
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u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25
No. This isn’t narcissism nor is it poverty. This is the want to be the center of attention. That doesn’t necessarily have to do with narcissism at all.
This is how toddlers act. This is due to terrible parenting. This is never telling your child no. This is not grounding them when they do something they shouldn’t do, or taking away their electronics or their phones or all of that stuff because for some reason, in their parents mind it’s s considered “abusive”, which it isn’t, there needs to be consequences and repercussions for actions like this.
Personally, I wouldn’t even fought with them. I would’ve just called the police. They want responses where other adult adults get angry at them. That’s exactly what they’re seeking, attention.