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Originally Posted by leomama
Wow! You've been really helpful to me just listening to what I am saying and mirroring it back to me. Most people I talk to about my father's narcissism can't be as objective as you.
Here's another thing going on in my family: my former t said he hopes I'm not raising a narc. Now it looks like I'm raising a bipolar: I have since learned that mania looks like narcissism and my daughter is definitely showing signs of bipolar, which her father was dx with.
You know what else? My dad told me my mom told him he was bipolar. Huh?
My family is crazy.
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The listening and then mirroring it back thing is a skill I learned initially to mimic "normal" emotions and behavior when I was a child. I've noticed a lot of people appreciate my ability to be able to mirror back at them and remain so objective, because as you just said most people just aren't good at being objective. Especially around a topic as emotionally charged as narcissism apparently is.
Mania can look a hell of a lot like narcissism, it's true. I was misdiagnosed as bipolar on two occasions that I remember because of my flamboyant grandiosity and such lol.
My family is also completely crazy. Narcissism and psychopathy are the norm in my family, if you're an emotional person with a high amount of empathy you'd be the laughing stock of any of my family's holiday gatherings.