It’s common for people to complain about how baffling narcissists are and how impossible it is to blend with them. The truth is that they love to gaslight you into feelings of confusion. But what if you turned the tables by deciding you won’t play along with their mind games? It’s possible that you can respond in ways that baffle the narcissist!
When you think about the pattern of narcissism, it can be difficult to wrap your mind around how some individuals build their entire personalities around traits like needing to control others, exploiting and manipulating people, having a sense of entitlement, looking down on others, being pathologically defensive, or creating their own alternate truths.
To make matters worse, it’s incredibly frustrating when they try to get inside your head—telling you how you’re supposed to think, what priorities you should have, and what opinions you should lead with. They want to ensure you conform to their self-serving agenda.
How many times have you wasted emotional energy trying to make them understand you, only to feel like you’re running into a brick wall? How often have you tried to show them a different perspective, only to be baffled by their close-mindedness and self-centered behavior?
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