• emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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    The origin of the word actually comes from the Greek myth, and vastly predates the disorder but I’m going to assume you’re just trolling.

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      Narcissus is a Greek name. Narcissistic is an english word. The ancient greeks did not call anything narcissistic, because the word didn’t exist.

      The N word comes from Spanish but people who use it aren’t speaking spanish, are they?

      • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        An English word that existed long before anyone was ever diagnosed with NPD. I’m very sorry for your diagnosis but trying to make an entire existing word unusable for everyone else is kinda the definition of narcissistic also.

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          X to doubt on your claim there, but why does that matter? The N word and the R word existed before they were slurs too. Are you going to apply the same logic there or do you have a unique hatred for pwNPD?

          • Harrison [He/Him]@ttrpg.network
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            1 year ago

            You doubt that a word meaning “like Narcissus” was used to describe behaviour similar to the popular thousands of years old mythological figure, before modern psychological science used it to describe a personality disorder?

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              1 year ago

              Yes. I’m also going to doubt that anybody in this thread was speaking Greek when they used the word narcissist, given that all these comments are in english.

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                1 year ago

                English mugs other languages and their associated grammatical rules all the time, especially Greek and Latin, and especially especially words related to mythological figures, like Herculean, Titanic or indeed, Narcissistic.

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          Personality disorders are divergences from normal patterns of thought and behaviour. In plenty of cases, they are caused by physical differences in the brain.
          They are definitionally neurodivergance, and become disability when the resulting behaviours impact an individual’s ability to function normally in society.