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Kind of failing to see what you disagree with me on ...that 99% of the population doesn't have 'narcissistic' tendencies? I'm not saying Narcissists (the supposed 2% of the population that meets the clinical definition) don't exist, I'm just saying that the term is being thrown around far too often these days to simply describe the fact that we - as a society - are all selfish and self-centered by nature.
I agree that society and individuals today are very skewed towards being self-centered. However, I think there is a group that have extremely strong narc tendencies/traits but aren't necessarily clinically diagnosable as having NPD.

I concur that a lot of people think their partner must be a narc if they got treated badly by them, didn't seem to care, etc. But my ex's mom was textbook perfect NPD - the 14 or so pages on the web page "Characteristics of Narcissistic mothers" could have been written specifically about her. I'm not sure if my ex had npd or not - but besides being self-centered, not caring about my needs, etc - she simply could never ever understand my side - even when we went to couples counseling - the therapist had to spoon feed her every single word/line to say to reflect back what I was saying - and when she did, she sounded like a robot (absolutely no empathy/emotion whatsoever).

I just don't think it's either: regular selfish people vs NPD (2%). I think there's a much larger - and growing segment - in between.
 
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