A subtlety lost on many.

Voldemort was a great wizard.

The thread is a bit of a dumpster fire…

I’ve been mulling over your actual question a bit. I could argue that some of the stigmatisation could just be that it’s really easy to dislike someone who’s self centred or selfish, that NPD can present similarly (gross assumptions on my part there, sorry) makes it easy to dislike someone with NPD.

Disliking someone makes it very easy to stigmatise any and all of their traits. It becomes a feedback loop.

Anyway, I hope you manage it well and hope you can surround yourself with supportive people.

Am fat, would cry.

It had to be stigmatized before that to be applied to selfish people.

Good point. I suspect it was a plot point in Medical Drama #17 or Police Drama #12, thus was thoroughly misrepresented.

How do you cope with NPD?

Also, what kind of things can other people do to support someone with NPD?

It’s stigmatised because the term has entered common (mis)usage to describe people who are just selfish

Best complaint I heard was “it’s just mad max on water” .

WTF? That sounds awesome.

Fascist dichotomy: the “others” are both strong and weak at the same time.

Just like immigrants are both “lazy” and “taking all the jobs” at the same time.

Not them personally but previous generations of British colonialism really (deliberately) screwed over the indigenous people in my country in a multitude of ways.

Every descendant generation since has benefitted from that to the detriment of indigenous generations. I, and my children, benefit from it daily with superior schooling, housing, health, wealth, etc.

Even the smallest things (e.g. voting for progressive government, volunteering, learning the language and culture, advocacy) that I can do to helps mitigate some of that harm.

LOL I’m even a java developer.

That’s just kicking the can down the road.

Who else will?

Correct the mistakes of my ancestors.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

“Scorned” in this context is equivalent to our contemporary “betrayed”.

She’s been passed over for reward by Trump.

Now that’s stuck in my head.

So, job done I guess.

Yep, got my flavours of Judaism mixed-up.

…and it’s just Anno cherry picking “cool” stuff anyway ;-)

NGE’s more skewed towards Rabbinic Kabbalah Judaism. Still Abrahamic though.

As a parent, I’d definitely feel the loss of my child more keenly than the loss of my sibling.

I feel like he died back when my brother died. Every day was a struggle for him. I feel like he’s finally at peace now.

I felt much the same way when my mum died. They’re finally at peace.

I think you’re showing genuine empathy for your dad. That’s a good thing.

Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

That’s like having google make a pizza with everything in my fridge then they complain that I also keep the dog’s food in there.