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“My father was formally recognized within the final yr at virtually 80 years outdated. He’s now in a nursing house with well being issues, and this has lastly allowed him to get some psychiatric remedy, thus the prognosis. It has been an incredible aid and weirdly vindicating. I’ve described my dad for many of my life as a restricted human being. Luckily, his narcissism is not malicious; it is simply unhappy and unlucky.”
“He might ask me a query about my life or my kids’s or husband’s, however will revert the dialog again to himself inside a sentence or two. Because of this, he does not know what I do for a residing, he cannot keep in mind the place my youngsters go to highschool, or how outdated they’re, or what my husband does or cares about. He by no means calls anybody on their birthday until my sister reminds him. He talks endlessly and may’t choose up context clues about individuals’s want to get away from him.
His ego is profoundly fragile. He can’t take accountability for something and is a pathological, uncontrollable liar. Anytime something goes effectively, it’s most likely attributable to his excessive heroism, intelligence, or accomplishments. Anytime something goes poorly, it is by no means his fault and solely a collection of horrible occasions of which he was an unwitting sufferer, even about tiny issues that nobody cares about. Like if he forgot to cease on the retailer and get one thing as requested, he would declare that he was mugged. Or that the shop was closed attributable to an influence outage when it wasn’t.
Anybody ready of authority ultimately turns into an asshole to him as a result of he cannot stand any unfavourable suggestions AT ALL. He as soon as give up a job as a result of he bought a poor efficiency assessment, however we came upon later that he informed them (falsely) that he had most cancers, and that is why his work was subpar. He likes sympathy and a spotlight and reward and profoundly dislikes anything, together with folks that simply aren’t very impressed by him. He’s very charming whenever you first meet him, however ultimately, individuals catch on to his lies, after which he loses buddies. His brothers and sisters will not converse to him.
He’s extraordinarily materialistic about bizarre issues and likes everybody to assume that he’s wealthy and profitable, and spends cash he does not need to make it look that manner. If I do one thing, he has to do it too. After I bought engaged to my husband, he bought engaged to a lady we would by no means met a month earlier than my marriage ceremony. After I purchased a automobile he significantly admired, he purchased an analogous one a month later. He’s profoundly broke now and residing on VA incapacity as a result of he squandered his cash on poor selections, and it will definitely grew to become a hoarding illness.
He’s obsessive about the seems of his kids. It is good that we’re moderately enticing, but it surely’s gross the best way that having fairly daughters and grandchildren is clearly essential to him, like we’re issues that he can brag about as an alternative of individuals with emotions and worth past our seems or jobs or ways in which we make him look good.”
—breakfast_with_tacos
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