She actually has done really well with being more empathetic with me over the years since we broke up, since we are still friends. That's one really cool thing I've found with NPD is that you can really teach yourself how to empathize if you want to. I think there's probably lots of things that the mental health community could learn from people with PDs if they stopped seeing us all as scary evil non-human entities. Like mutants! We are like the X-men in a way, lol.