This is an open discussion; I'm free to add commentary and others are free to ignore it. Engagement is at all times optional.

Also, I'm certain that I stated that I'm not a doctor of psychology - so I can only infer that your comment about me speaking to the dsm was meant to harm. Trouble is that you can't be sure that I haven't already or that I didn't speak with experts on the subject before posting. There are many who share my beliefs about npd and with our country blaming MI's for virtually every act of mass murder, it's important that we make clear to others what the MI community is and isn't. Npd isn't, in my opinion, an illness but a character trait possessed by all humans. I'm not alone in that belief. A cursory search of Google for scholarship produced by credible sources on the subject would make that very evident.

What I would like is for people to stop complaining that alleged npd sufferers are a blight on humanity while obsessively quizzing them and elevating them to special snowflake status. You bet I'd have a grandiose sense of self if people thought me capable of emotional terrorism and spent every waking hour obsessing over how I think.

I'm only asking folks to reconsider the attention they give a rather common human character trait. No one is forced to do what I've said and because the west socializes people to unnecessarily pathologize things, I'm certain most won't. That's fine. No one listened to the people who argued that homosexuality wasn't a mental illness or the people who pointed out that people of color weren't biologically inferior either.

Funny how a people so averse to religion hold so close to their hearts the text of a book that is under constant revision by imperfect humans.