They paywalled My articles? They're not supposed to do that, I have monetisation disabled! I can't see a paywall in incognito mode, can you share a screenshot of the paywall?

Until I get this sorted out, here's an alternative frontend

I got the psychiatrist's approval for genital nullification surgery. I have a surgery date next year. I'm going to be able to wear tight pants and bikinis.

I don't even think that employee was being a dick. He's a man, the customer was calling for a woman. How's he supposed to know she wanted his help if she won't say so? She was just bad at communicating with her words, not his fault.

Thank you! If I get more reports of paywalls I'll switch to posting scribe links by default. Hopefully this was a one-off bug.

I recommend reading the article, I'm very proud of it.

I wrote this article because I was inspired by something Ian Danskin recently said. See, he used the word n***c***stic as an insult in a recent video. I spoke to him about it, and he agreed to remove it as it's ableist, and left a comment on the video discussing the issue. I'm very grateful that Ian cares about disability issues. But he also said he's disappointed that psychologists named a mental disorder after the Greek myth, and that got Me thinking. Is the original Greek myth worth making cultural reference to, if the word were not an ableist slur? So naturally, I analysed the myth, and discovered that it's queerphobic, heteropatriarchal, and vaguely ephebophilic. Turns out there's no good reason at all to use the word as an insult, even if you're referencing Greek mythology!

I find that fact kind of beautiful, because it defangs excuses used by ableists that they were referring to Greek mythology all along. If they really were, well their words suck just as bad. So they can't hide behind such excuses anymore.

Anyway now I stan Narcissus as an aroace king 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 🖤🤍💜

Oh, it gets worse. While NPD has a genetic component, like all personality disorders it seems to be triggered by early childhood trauma. It would seem that if you get abused by your parents badly enough to get a personality disorder, genetics determine whether you get NPD or something else like BPD. The hatred of people with NPD is victim blaming. It's saying you're evil cause your parents abused you. Here are My other articles about NPD:

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/anarcho-narcissism-b647c8062173

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-narcissists-938d39261f13

Book III, Fable VII.

Ovid's Metamorphoses.

I have a much better theory

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/the-link-between-homophobia-and-being-gay-youve-got-it-the-wrong-way-round-07d4b017d2ec

That's not true at all. I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and I care about others very deeply. And My actions reflect that. For example, recently I shut down a cult discord server run by a pedophile who's dating kids from the cult. This is because I think adults dating kids is bad.

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/duolingo-is-a-dutch-tulip-that-hates-disabled-people-b9c7fa6e98d1

Your very existence is an act of revolt, and I hope it upsets as many reactionaries as possible without compromising your safety.

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/the-link-between-homophobia-and-being-gay-youve-got-it-the-wrong-way-round-07d4b017d2ec

Kids really are being groomed by adults into having homosexual thoughts and homosexual arousal. But it's not the gay adults who are doing it, it's the homophobic adults. Homophobia causes homoeroticism as a fetish.

People with NPD should be seen as victims because NPD is a mental disorder and a disability, because it's caused by child abuse, because it increases lifelong vulnerability to intimate abuse, and because you're currently claiming disabled people are bullies.

You also came into this comment section to attack disabled people without reading the article.

It's so weird that we have a culture that treats teaching pride to children as a bad thing.

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-narcissists-938d39261f13

Yes, that blog is my blog.

I genuinely want more dead cops.

Donald Trump does not have an NPD diagnosis. If you're going to name random people to invent an argument, then I may as well do the same thing and claim that Bob Ross, Mr Rogers, and Carl Sagan had NPD.

https://www.narcissisticabuserehab.com/darvo/

Narcissistic Abuse Rehab is a hate website founded on reactionary feelings, not on science. DARVO is a real thing, and I'm sure they have good sources for its existence. But they have no sources connecting DARVO with NPD, because there isn't a connection.

https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/pathological-lying-narcissistic-personality-disorder-traits

That's an opinion piece that appears to be based on a tweet. It's not scientific evidence.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2017/09/narcissistic-projection#1

That's an opinion piece on a blog which cites other opinion pieces on blogs. It's not scientific evidence.

just the diagnostic criteria from the DSM indicate the dangers:

Only one of them does, and its inclusion in the DSM was controversial. Many experts argued against even including NPD as a diagnosis.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/new-insights-narcissistic-personality-disorder

Conceptualizations and diagnostic definitions of narcissistic personality disorder have primarily focused on the more strikingly provocative, self-enhancing, entitled interpersonal behaviors and attitudes that tend to capture the attention of clinicians rather than on the patient’s underlying, internal struggles. This has contributed to making the diagnosis more judgmental rather than informative.

Here's another source:

https://www.thehotline.org/resources/abuse-and-mental-illness-is-there-a-connection/

A common assumption we hear at The Hotline is that abuse is caused by a partner’s mental health condition, for example: bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), narcissistic personality, borderline personality or antisocial personality. While these are serious mental health conditions, they do not cause abuse. Nothing in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM 5) states that a mental illness solely causes a partner to be abusive in a relationship; however, there are a select few diagnoses that can increase the risk of abusive patterns to show up in a relationship and in other areas of life.

There's no scientific evidence that people with NPD are dangerous. You're just spreading unfounded rumours that you haven't bothered to verify, about how mental disorders make people dangerous.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't say such mean things about my mental disorder. At the very least, maybe you could swap the word "narcissist" for person-first language into "person living with NPD".