Friday, March 09, 2012

Are you a narcissist?

I hate this type of people the most. This type of people tend to degrade someone to make others think they are smart, good, and more superior. I encountered someone who I think is a narcissist.

After working for so long, I miscalculated something that is easy. This person laughed at me. Is it funny? Do you have the rights to laugh at someone who made a mistake?

I think even a 3 year old boy will only do that. You are a matured person and yet you did something like this. Educated and a professional. What a shame.

I found out that this person fits the criteria as a narcissist. From the Wikipedia, you need to fulfill all these criteria to be a narcissist. This is a checklist for you.

Thomas suggests that narcissists typically display most, sometimes all, of the following traits:[5]
An obvious self-focus in interpersonal exchanges
Problems in sustaining satisfying relationships
A lack of psychological awareness (see insight in psychology and psychiatry, egosyntonic)
Difficulty with empathy
Problems distinguishing the self from others (see narcissism and boundaries)
Hypersensitivity to any insults or imagined insults (see criticism and narcissists, narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury)
Vulnerability to shame rather than guilt
Haughty body language
Flattery towards people who admire and affirm them (narcissistic supply)
Detesting those who do not admire them (narcissistic abuse)
Using other people without considering the cost of doing so
Pretending to be more important than they really are
Bragging (subtly but persistently) and exaggerating their achievements
Claiming to be an "expert" at many things
Inability to view the world from the perspective of other people
Denial of remorse and gratitude

Are you one of them?

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