I don’t see many real difference here unless we are going to get into arguments of ‘good and bad behavior" or (and I think this one is the difference in most peoples’ minds) the legitimacy of a spectrum such as NPD. I realized that is where I was going wrong, personally
It does but someone raised a point about anxiety in yesterday’s discussion that stuck with me, pointing out that anxiety disorder is also a medical condition and yet we use feeling anxious as a descriptor of something without necessarily meeting the requirements for anxiety disorder. This is how narcissistic was used by me also, to describe an action that would be absolutely 100% narcissistic in its nature as opposed to making a statement about a person being a narcissist.
Well calling someone anxious isn’t really a derogatory thing is it? It’s describing an emotion that isn’t seen as negative. Meanwhile, I’ve never seen anyone call someone self-absorbed without it being intended to critique/speak negatively about that action. It’s why I specifically chose autism as my example, because there are a lot of issues of people out there using it pejoratively just as narcissism is used.
It does but someone raised a point about anxiety in yesterday’s discussion that stuck with me, pointing out that anxiety disorder is also a medical condition and yet we use feeling anxious as a descriptor of something without necessarily meeting the requirements for anxiety disorder. This is how narcissistic was used by me also, to describe an action that would be absolutely 100% narcissistic in its nature as opposed to making a statement about a person being a narcissist.
Well calling someone anxious isn’t really a derogatory thing is it? It’s describing an emotion that isn’t seen as negative. Meanwhile, I’ve never seen anyone call someone self-absorbed without it being intended to critique/speak negatively about that action. It’s why I specifically chose autism as my example, because there are a lot of issues of people out there using it pejoratively just as narcissism is used.