YETI

Someone can have narcissistic traits without having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The word narcissist isn't just a diagnosis but also a descriptor.

We shouldn't demonize people who are diagnosed narcissists as a whole but when the diagnosis is named after a negative descriptor it becomes very hard in general to separate them unless properly educated.

Saw a selected few be like "oh but narcissistic does means self-absorbed, and when i use it, i refer to the word by itself. No ties to NPD. That's why i use the tem 'narcissistic abuse' no problem" bitch...it doesn't MATTER how you use it. Narcissistic personality disorder has narcissistic in the name. The ignorant ones will associate a word...with the SAME WORD.

The logic is good, but doing the ableist thing while operating under different logic ain't actually fighting shit. In the eyes of whoever sees you saying "narcissistic abuse" as a first impression, you're just doing the ableist thing.