I know it is utter BS as far as my "case" is concerned. Yes, I am a Narcissist... It was not some thing my parents did or did not do. I was born this way, plain and simple. It is no defense mechanism for me, it is a way of being that deviants from the "norm" and causes quite a lot of destruction hence the reason NPD is coined a "disorder" and not "a human trait that everyone possesses". Smirking.