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My mother has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (father too). This means she has a cognitive deficiency that makes her unable to feel empathy; in other words, she cannot put herself in someone else's shoes.*
Here are things that my mother knows and has been told repeatedly:
Daughter and I have perfume sensitivities
I have extremely sensitive skin, some eczema, and have to be very careful what I use on it
Daughter loathes pink, calls it "the P word," and has refused to wear it for a year now
Daughter likes dinosaurs, dragons, bugs, music, sewing, knitting, Halloween, and spooky things
Anyway, mother just sent us a package, which is an extremely rare event. Here is what was in it:
a bottle of vitamins, opened, used, and expired
perfumed soaps and lotions that someone gave her
a new flap book, with the flaps torn off (she read it)
2 cases of scented moisturizer, new, six different scents, $300 worth, from QVC I think
a pink baseball cap with "Princess" in little studs on the front, but enough studs are missing that you can't really read what it says
an old, used-up lip balm
a paring knife
Anybody want to trade mothers?
*People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are generally hostile and cruel. They cannot reason well, and don't listen to you when you talk unless you are saying something about them. They can't take other people's feelings into consideration; do not care about others' wishes, needs, or possessions; and don't realize that others will react negatively when abused, used, or lied to (no empathy). They follow certain rules only because of fear of getting caught; their moral level is like that of a five year-old child. They are envious and competitive, contemptuous of others, negative, and complaining, Narcissists live in a fantasy world where they are beautiful, powerful, and perfect. They react negatively to criticism (my parents react violently). They have no sense of humor (again, you need empathy for that), they have a false sense of entitlement, are usually extremely stingy and mean, are prejudice and think everyone is "beneath" them. They give terrible gifts since they don't know or care what you might want, and feel you should be honored if given something that was lying around in their house, then they become haughty if you don't adequately appreciate the gift. Narcissists don't recognize that others have feelings, and don't even recognize their own feelings as belonging to them. They are so out of touch with themselves and others that they think everyone is like this.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nar...652/DSECTION=1
http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/traits.html#gift
My mother has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (father too). This means she has a cognitive deficiency that makes her unable to feel empathy; in other words, she cannot put herself in someone else's shoes.*
Here are things that my mother knows and has been told repeatedly:
Daughter and I have perfume sensitivities
I have extremely sensitive skin, some eczema, and have to be very careful what I use on it
Daughter loathes pink, calls it "the P word," and has refused to wear it for a year now
Daughter likes dinosaurs, dragons, bugs, music, sewing, knitting, Halloween, and spooky things
Anyway, mother just sent us a package, which is an extremely rare event. Here is what was in it:
a bottle of vitamins, opened, used, and expired
perfumed soaps and lotions that someone gave her
a new flap book, with the flaps torn off (she read it)
2 cases of scented moisturizer, new, six different scents, $300 worth, from QVC I think
a pink baseball cap with "Princess" in little studs on the front, but enough studs are missing that you can't really read what it says
an old, used-up lip balm
a paring knife
Anybody want to trade mothers?
*People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are generally hostile and cruel. They cannot reason well, and don't listen to you when you talk unless you are saying something about them. They can't take other people's feelings into consideration; do not care about others' wishes, needs, or possessions; and don't realize that others will react negatively when abused, used, or lied to (no empathy). They follow certain rules only because of fear of getting caught; their moral level is like that of a five year-old child. They are envious and competitive, contemptuous of others, negative, and complaining, Narcissists live in a fantasy world where they are beautiful, powerful, and perfect. They react negatively to criticism (my parents react violently). They have no sense of humor (again, you need empathy for that), they have a false sense of entitlement, are usually extremely stingy and mean, are prejudice and think everyone is "beneath" them. They give terrible gifts since they don't know or care what you might want, and feel you should be honored if given something that was lying around in their house, then they become haughty if you don't adequately appreciate the gift. Narcissists don't recognize that others have feelings, and don't even recognize their own feelings as belonging to them. They are so out of touch with themselves and others that they think everyone is like this.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nar...652/DSECTION=1
http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/traits.html#gift