Knowing the Narcissist : That’s Not Important Right Now
Our sense of entitlement, lack of consideration and our failure to recognise and respect boundaries means that we are important and you are not. Our need is an emergency. Your needs are secondary. Our requirements are fundamental. Your wants are irrelevant. If we want something it must be done and you must drop everything else, cancel your plans and ensure we are provided for and catered to otherwise all hell breaks loose.
Fail to do something we want and when we want (even if we haven’t told you what it is) is regarded by us a criticism and our fury is ignited. We may impose a cold furious silent treatment or lambast you with our heated fury but either way we are important and you are not.
We show no appreciation of your situation, no consideration of your position and scant regard for what you might need or have to contend with. It is predictable all about us. Any situation, any time and any moment we will trample all over what you are doing in order to get what we want done.
Whatever you may have organised, planned or whatever you are doing is minutiae and utterly inconsequential to the massively important event, occurrence or happening that we have decreed. Expect interruptions, abrasive treatment and a complete lack of manners and consideration. This mind-set that what you are doing is not important appears often and repeated and is symptomatic of so many of our narcissistic traits. Here are twenty instances you may recognise where what you are doing is not important right now.
- Talking over you.
- Changing channel on the television when you are clearly watching something.
- Switching off music that you are listening to.
- Playing music loudly when you are relaxing.
- Thrusting a newspaper under your nose when you are reading a book and saying “look at this”
- Talking to you when you are on the telephone.
- Calling you at work and raising a trivial matter and demanding that you do something about it.
- Asking you to pass something that is in reach when you are doing some other task.
- Saying la la la when you are trying to explain something.
- Making you late because we needed you to straighten our tie several times first.
- Calling you indoors from an outdoors task just to point out something on the television which is irrelevant.
- Calling you and asking where something is when it is easy to find.
- Calling you when you are socialising and demanding that you return home to deal with an emergency – such as the blinds are stuck or we have run out of peanut butter
- Demanding you prepare our evening meal when you are trying to get ready to go out.
- Feigning a greater illness when you are unwell.
- Waking you up to tell you something pointless.
- Ringing the landline from our mobile (withholding the number) and insisting you answer when you are trying to eat and then hanging up.
- Demanding to be picked up or given a lift irrespective of what you might be doing.
- Using items you need to complete a task.
- Thrusting a tablet under your nose as you are trying to do something and telling you to “watch this” only to see a video of a man falling down some stairs.
It does not matter how trivial, ridiculous or childish the behaviour is as long as it disrupts you and thrusts your attention onto us, even if it is to react in a negative way, we will always behave in such a way.
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1. Conversational Narcissist: “Lombard effect” dominates the conversation, speaks louder, speaks faster, pontificates, narcissist thinks they know better than you — so you can’t get a word in edgewise, drowns out & shuts your voice. [Narcissist over time, ERODES you & your presence, turns you into a “SHELL of YOURSELF”]
2. Also, narcissist is uninterested in what you’re watching
3. a variation of SHUTTING OFF my interests: narcissist notionally/hypocritically asks if I have any place I’d like to visit, after the narcissist has completed their PRIMARY errand — then challenges, questions, mocks, ridicules, argues, dismisses, downplays why I would even want to drive next to that place? Narcissist deliberately OBLITERATES my very essence, being, existence. [CONTROL FREAK! COERCIVE CONTROL, INCONSIDERATE, LACK of EMPATHY, CALLOUS, COLD-BLOODED, SELF-CENTERED]
5. Eager to show you what interests the narcissist — yet when you have something to share, the narcissist is uninterested, irritated, annoyed, ignores you.
9. Narcissist’s favorite line: “I don’t care!” — never interested in what you have to say. Dismissive of your opinions, comments, stories; ARGUES that you’re “wrong” or somehow ‘mistaken’ in your views, finds ways to put you down: to ultimately SHUT your voice.
10. May even change their mind about accompanying you & not go at all — despite how the narcissist expects you to accompany them everywhere.
12. Narcissist is too lazy, entitled, uninterested, too above any task to find some inconsequential item — worse, goes ahead & buys the very same item, without verifying whether one already exists in the home: by a narcissistic cheapskate who’s lazy: the narcissist’s inefficient contradictions & hypocrisy — as long as the narcissist gets their way.
14. Self-absorbed narcissist feels like a king entitled to be catered to & served — as if they’re a helpless toddler sitting on their high-brow high-chair/recliner.
19. Bogarts my cherished belongings I’ve had for decades, even gifted to me by special people in my life — then callously misuses, breaks, destroys them — then does NOTHING to apologize, replace broken items, or in a rare instance buys another because HE needs to USE it. At the other extreme, if the INSUFFERABLE narcissist deems my belongings of no use to himself or “in the way”, he may even toss MY possession without consulting with me first. [Aaargghhh!!]
20. more on the CONVERSATIONAL NARCISSIST: The cerebral narcissist in my life constantly shares/shows something he’s really into: war stories, military history, politics, etc. — yet when I share my stories, the narcissist doesn’t give a sh*t, doesn’t care, appears put off, annoyed, bored…[SELFISH!]
Number twenty is quite a funny prank to play on someone.
I told my brother that a certain obscure American sitcom was the best thing i’d ever watched.
So he sat down to watch it with me, it was boring and unfunny. Took him 20 minutes to work out what was going on.
And now ignore your personal narc’s demands, stop whatever you are doing and read/listen to all the material on HG’s channels IMMEDIATELY. Do not pass Go, drop the baby/pet/husband/wife, turn your back on your boss (who is not your boss anyway. What are you doing with this impostor? Your real boss is here!), open your eyes and ears and start learning.
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