When a narcissist realizes you are smarter than they are, their whole world shatters. They start obsessively studying you, trying to steal your intelligence like a parasite feeding off its host. You might think, “Oh, they’re just insecure.” No, this is far worse than simple insecurity; this is a calculated effort to strip you of your intellectual identity, repackage it, and present it as their own, all while simultaneously ensuring you doubt yourself.
But here’s the paradox: how does a grandiose, delusional narcissist even grasp that they are intellectually inferior? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to break down today.
Before they even start attacking you directly, they gaslight themselves with self-deception and delusional narratives. A narcissist cannot tolerate the idea that someone else is genuinely more intelligent than they are, so they create a narrative where your knowledge, skills, and insights were either taken from them or somehow inspired by them. They convince themselves that you wouldn’t be where you are without their guidance or influence. This twisted self-deception gives them the justification to steal from you without guilt. They may even claim that your achievements are actually theirs or that you merely copied them. They live in a fantasy where they are the original source, and you’re just an imitator.
Next, they spiral into panic and desperation. The moment they realize you’re intellectually out of their league, their world cracks. They don’t just see you as a threat; they see you as someone who exposes their fraudulence. Their first instinct is damage control, but not in a rational way. They don’t think, “Maybe I should learn and grow.” No, they react with desperation, scrambling to regain control and manipulate the narrative, burying their fear under a pile of stolen ideas and forced superiority.
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