Normal Podcast Obsessor

For anyone who's still around and wants to be educated, "narcissism" is a personality disorder, which is a fancy way of saying that it's a way of existing, which has real disadvantages, but which has also been effectively criminalized by the medicarceral system. If you hate narcissists, you are complicit in the ongoing social processes which deny them bodily autonomy, human connection, and basic dignity.

-NPD has one of the highest suicide rates of any mood related disorder; slightly less impulsivity based attempts than BPD, but NPD sufferers are more likely to succeed in their attempts.

-NPD, like most cluster B disorders, is generally traumagenic, meaning it usually develops as a means of coping with childhood trauma, abuse, or neglect.

-"Narc abuse" is pop psychology with no real basis in reality. NPD sufferers are infinitely more likely to be abused than become abusers, and are typically more prone to self destructive than anything.

-If your parents sucked shit, it's because they *chose* to treat you like shit, not because they had a magic version of NPD that makes them a Bad Person. sorry you had to find out this way.

-Random people online with NPD aren't your parents and it's really creepy to project your trauma onto them.

sufferers in your life like

people or die trying.

all things

honorable mentions (internal thoughts only):

i dont personally think hell is much of a curse but considering grace also uses heck i'm putting it here since clearly he thinks it is

Insomnia (1)

Migraines (2)

Dissociative Identity Disorder (3)

Reincarnation | depression (4)

Conscription to the Hail Mary (Grace alive and also aboard) | depression (5)

~ Canon chain of events (Grace in space + stint in prison). Lots of character study fanfics about this with a few variations but the same outline of events. ~

Post-launch toxic situationship with Colt Seavers (6)

Pre-launch relationship with Grace (he still has to go to space) (7) (8) (9)

The prison fics...

28 months of solitary confinement (10)

~30 years of prison violence | disability and severe ptsd (11)

4 years of solitary confinement aboard Hail Mary with comatose astronauts (12)

Transfer of consciousness to the Hail Mary ship / 13 years of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation (13)

And finally...

Equanimity time loop (14)

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.