Take advantage of others to get what they want.Expect special treatment and unquestioning compliance with their expectations.Belittle or looking down on people they perceive as inferior.Be preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty, brilliants, or having the perfect relationship.Exaggerate their achievements and talents.Expect to be recognised as superior, even without the achievements that warrant it.Have a sense of entitlement and requiring constant and excessive admiration.Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance.Someone who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) will likely Pathological narcissism, in the form of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is actually quite rare, impacting only 1% of the population according to PsychologyToday.
Like many personality traits, narcissism is normally distributed among the population, meaning that most people fall somewhere along the middle of the spectrum, while only a few reach the extremes.
These are both examples of parents who have narcissistic traits.
Imagine a mother who seems like the perfect parent out in public but who rages and screams at her children and husband at home when they displease her… or a father who deliberately makes his kids feel confused by telling them something didn’t happen when it objectively did, invalidating their experience and helping them learn they can’t trust themselves…
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