Yeah, I hated it too. If I had a server automatically downloading torrents at all times on my network, I could kiss goodbye to online gaming and voice calls with my swarm, and even browsing and work would slow to a crawl. I guess I'd spend a lot more time reading physical books while waiting for the internet to work.

Thanks

Are you a soulist?

You're very confused. We're talking about women who COULD raise a child while working a job, and would rather have a life of their own, but are bound by basic morality. You also seem to think a single celled organism with no nervous system is a child.

Pacific Rim says they're grown in a lab on a planet that may have different laws of physics than Earth's. They're not naturally occuring, they're engineered shock troopers.

Cars are evil and they make the people who drive them evil. Cars are the one ring.

Also the smurfs are anarcho-communists

Are potatoes and ramen not safe foods for you? I love them. Also, I recently tried Tofu out, and it is the blandest thing I have tasted in my life, which means it's perfect. I just slap on whatever sauces and spices I want, and the texture is so so inoffensive.

I'm glad I managed to inspire a bit of change. Thank you for your open mindendess

English isn't a person, it's a language. The root word narcissism was pulled into english by people. Those people were late 19th century psychologists.

Actually I'd prefer if non narcissists didn't type it out when speaking outside a medical context. I'm allowed to say it because I'm a narcissist and I have a full understanding of the issues and aren't oppressing myself by using it. But a neurotypical cannot have the lived experience of ableist discrimination against pwNPD, and so I'd prefer they use the term pwNPD. It has fewer letters too. When I see a neurotypical calling us narcissists, it feels like when a neurotypical calls me an autist.

The common use of narcissism in the vernacular originates with Christopher Lasch's book The Culture Of Narcissism, which put forward the thesis that NPD was becoming more normalised in contemporary america. That book inspired self help guru hacks to sell books which told people that all their problems are caused by people with NPD holding them back and abusing them. People love being told that all their problems are caused by a vulnerable minority that seeks to destroy them, that's how Hitler got into power. So anyway, these books inspired the idea that everyone's abusive parents and bosses and partners are narcissists, and once that happened, more and more people started drawing on this growing linguistic awareness of the word narcissist, generally falling into one of two camps: Either they hate people with NPD and think we're all abusive, or they don't know the history of the word and just repeat it without thinking. And those two groups sound identical when they throw the word about as an insult. When I call out use of the slur, I never know which of the two groups I'm about to have an argument with. Sometimes it's both.