And you seldom bring anything serious into the bedroom...

Hah, look at this guy! Amateur, right??

...

...right?

A cursory check that I'm too busy to give my full attention indicates that, maybe(?) the motive of the Gunpowder Treason was to improve religious freedom?

I don't recognize these words as any particular anthem... are they a reference?

OP: "god, it's hard being a paraplegic and trying to run..."

You: "guys, don't listen to this asshole, being a paraplegic means you can't run. If this person were actually NPD, it would be an extremely positive sign for them to seek to improve themselves and since we can see this person trying to improve themselves, they are clearly lying and manipulative. Classic NPD."

Log off and touch grass. You can come back when the stench of your self righteous diarrhea of the mouth fades.

I think you raise a very valuable point here. "Narcissist" is so often used simply as a label for the villain with no consideration for the terms use as a medical diagnosis.

In your case, you may be labeled a narcissist but you make a continual conscious effort to account for the weaknesses implicit in that diagnosis. This is different from the vitriolic insult so often used to condemn people.

This is a failure on our part, in the way we use the term. You may be (technically) a narcissist, but, you are not "evil" in the way that others popularly labeled "narcissists" are. You are a good person.

Ahhhh gold old nuclear boyscout...

That is my understanding. I remember hearing stories about dudes visiting a dump or whatever, kicking through the screen of a CRT and getting zapped like fuck

Goddamn, was my brain ever this smooth??

There were some anecdotes I remember reading (that I'd really appreciate some sources on, if ever I get around to investigating) about how the Soviet Union during the Cold War maintained a steely eyed, ice cold resolve as the US was doing everything they could to spark a nuclear war. Pieces I remember are times the US flew bombers at Moscow, watching for Soviet reaction, hoping to find out the range ability of Soviet radar.

And then the Cuban Missile Crisis of course

I find an effective means to resolve my anxiety is to consider the worst possible outcome and resolve within myself if that is an outcome I can withstand.

I'm in your seat.

I understand that all these platitudes about how a person should behave are good things, so I try to do them. I try to be a good person in all these ways and try to not be an asshole is all those.

And here I am as an unhappy mid-thirties autistic fuck with unfilled needs. I don't understand how to weigh my own needs against all these platitudes, if I need it but it's bad to seek it in any of the ways available to me, then I won't get it. Simple.

Whereas other people have some magical spectrum they measure things on that tell them when it's okay to break any of the rules they believe in because "this was right for me".

Edit: Excuse me, I'm really grumpy today

Hey! Me too! Was your prosopagnosia home grown or was your brain also hit by a truck?