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Ah the stupid wolf shit. Thanks I was hung up on the film part. So "basic person more murdery than loner nerd"? Isn't that like the whole point of American Psycho?
The joke is leaning more on the OCD/narcissistic characteristics of Patrick Bateman than the murdery part. Like, having a ridiculously tedious self-care routine due to vanity (or self-consciousness, take your pick).
I think it's kinda weird that you used the whole initialism for only one of those disorders. You could have used it for both or neither, but you didn't.
It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing "OCD" used casually, but "NPD" would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to "narcissistic" as a character trait.
As a random comment reader, you are correct in your assessment. I can deduce NPD is "narcissistic personality disorder" from having read "narcissistic" in your previous comment but it's much less familiar than OCD.
Neil Patrick Derris?
I think we all have a duty to communicate ethically moreso than to communicate clearly. People are used to hearing the partial version of NPD because of cultural stigma. We know more than them, and that means we have a duty to educate them.
Speak for yourself bozo
Uh, the whole point of communication is clarity, otherwise you're just making noises. Communication requires that the recipient understands the intended message.
Communicating clearly is also important. But communicating ethically is more important. Like most people, I'd rather be called a nice word I don't know than a homophobic slur I understand perfectly well. Wouldn't you?
Communicating clearly is fundamental to communicating at all. If it isn't clear, it isn't communication.
And my mother said if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Communicating ethically is more important than communicating at all.
I've never in my life seen an initialism for narcissism.
NPD. Go read psychology textbooks until you've got a basic grasp of mental health verbiage.
Just because it's a thing in psychology textbooks doesn't mean it's part of the common vernacular. OCD definitely is, but NPD isn't.
What does that have to do with upper middle class girls with a green juice on tiktok?
Nothing. Here's a helpful link for you to learn basic conversational skills: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=conversational+tangent