Well I'm not a Narcissist, but the two involved in raising me often begged me for empathy as I got older. They learned the hard way that I was born without the capacity to feel it.

Again, not a Narcissist but I'll answer your questions from a psychopathic point of view because I'm bored and you mentioned me in this post so hey why not?


do you wish that people were more willing to try to empathize with you?

No. I am actually downright contemptuous of people who seek to empathize with and "understand" me. Frankly, no one can truly understand me except another psychopath and even then no two psychopaths are alike. It's the irony of being human, nobody can ever fully understand another person. That's not the way the world works regardless of anyone who claims otherwise.

To see who you really are, a complex, emotive human being who is the way that they are due to circumstances completely out of their control?

While I am most certainly complex, I am not an emotional creature obviously. Heh. I don't wish anyone to "see" me really though it is refreshing if someone does and strikes up a nice intellectual conversation with me about it. That, however, is a rare occurrence most people just started with the "you cold hearted *****" line so I just smile(amused because people are incredibly predictable in certain respects) and move on to other people I can play the game with, to be blunt.

I prefer operating in the shadows. I have been learning since childhood how to mime "normal" emotionality, empathy, and a conscience... All the things I was born without. I have to wear a mask most of the time except around those who know who/what I truly am underneath said mask and don't mind it. Otherwise it gets mildly annoying, you know, having to move to a new group of people every few months. Tsk tsk tsk.

Or do you not really care about having people try to understand you, as long as they respect/admire you?

I have zero investment in people "understanding" me and as I've mentioned above I am typically extremely contemptuous of people who try. As for being admired/respected, eh it's a means to an end for me. Not the end itself. If being admired/respected gets me what I want then I certainly cultivate that and I do it flawlessly(I'm insanely charismatic/charming, heh). Also, by that same token if being hated is what will get me what I want, then I cultivate that too. I don't care what other people think of me, all I care about is getting what I want.