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LovebirdsFlying,
I read your post above with interest. IMO, it may make a valid distinction, maybe. I'ld have to think on it more. But - good food for thought. I think you use the term "learned adaptive behavior" in a credible way.
Sorry you had such a dreadful childhood to endure.
The one thing I would throw out is that I suspect that the people who exploited/harmed you had more wrong with them than narcissism. That point might be academic, depending on what one means by narcissism.
I happen to know someone who is severely disordered in a narcissistic sense. This person would not harm anyone. There is a narcissistic orientation, natural to children, that some never outgrow. It can result in a person so expansively self-absorbed that one would rather eat thumb tacks than be around them, but they are not necessarily mean people.
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