Is anyone here not narcissistic at all?

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By that I mean you don't care what opinion others have about you. You can't be offended, because you don't care. Compliments are meaningless, because again, you don't care.

Curious what will be the results. I have a working theory that humans are inherently narcissistic, but happy to find someone to disprove it :3

I don't think concept of narcissism applies here. Humans are social creatures and to meet the level you're describing they would fall more under sociopathic. There's a large gulf in wanting to be held in good regard by others vs needing admiration about being superior.

That's the problem with labels, they tend to be vague. I thought about calling it sociopathy too, but that label seems to be used for people who are reckless and antisocial. While this is more like being asocial? But asocial isn't popular label, so I assumed nobody would know what I'm talking about...

Narcissism stems from a feeling of superiority. They want to be seen as the ultimate and treated as such.

That's different than people wanting to feel valued or just liked for themselves.

Not the same, because you're assuming that other people hold pigs in the same regard and hold values similar to your own.

I actually assumed complete opposite. And this is exactly my point, humans feel superior towards basically everything, including most other humans. Isn't it superiority you've mentioned before, and therefore, narcissism?

I think you are describing Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is supposed to happen if someone is narcissistic way above the norm.

Anyway, what better label I should use here?

A certain amount of "self love" is vital to survival. But like everything else in life it can be taken to pathological extremes.


Its the pathological extreme that is named after the character Narcissus in Greek mythology, and is given that diagnostic label.

Thats it. End of discussion.

I don't react to compliments or deliberate put-downs emotionally. I'm open to constructive criticism. I'm wary of folks that are hinting that they might escalate things: either with violence, malicious falsehood rumors/slander, or micromanaging.

I'd love to live by the adage of "Don't worry what others think about you, do your own thing." But seeing as others may have the physical or social power to destroy me out of nowhere, I must remain vigilant. Not all NTs are evil, but the ones that are can be flat-out viscous.

Stay safe. Be aware of those around you.

...yes, normies can be viscous.

It's called the Ego -- not narcissism.

Narcissism is a personality disorder, not a fundamental (yet a very noisy) part of the human experience and psyche.


Egos comes with all sizes, shapes, colors or even other characteristic like 'flexibility', 'strength' or 'durability'.

An egotistical person has a bigger and stronger ego, but not necessarily fragile.

Narcissists on average has bigger sizes, yet also generally will always have a fragile ego.



So... To sum up --
All humans have egos.
But not all those who have an ego are narcissists.

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