Paraphrased:
The narcissist’s smirk is a subtle but telling expression that occurs when a narcissist experiences pleasure from manipulating or deceiving someone.
For narcissists, the smirk usually reflects contempt, which is a deep-seated disdain or lack of respect towards others. For narcissists contempt is tied to their belief in their own superiority. They view others who do not serve their needs as worthless or beneath them, showing a complete disregard for how their actions impact those around them.
Nah. They’re reminding people that nuance exists and that reading the actions of others in absolutes can lead to severe mistakes in the way we engage with the world. There is always more that we dont know than there is that we do, and, when it comes to people, forgetting that can make it easy to mistreat others over simple and preventable (with the appropriate amount of communication ofc) misunderstandings. It’s a valid and important point to remember imo
narcissism isn’t a gradient, you either are and display the behavior, or you are not and do not.
There are no ‘semi-narcissists’
Is there room for nuance in what TYPE of narcissist they are? Sure, I’ll grant.
Narcissism is a somewhat multidimensional trait with gradients of intensity. Who told you that it’s a binary classification?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346546680_Untangling_the_associations_that_narcissistic_admiration_and_narcissistic_rivalry_have_with_agency_communion_and_romantic_commitment/figures?lo=1
a lifetime of dealing with narcissists
Autism is a spectrum as swell but again, there is no such thing as a half autist
I don’t think you know what “spectrum” means
There’s people with more pronounced autistic traits and those with less pronounced ones. There isn’t half an autist, but there can be someone whose autistic traits’ intensities are near the middle of those of a person who clearly is autistic and those of a person who clearly isn’t.
The categorical nature of diagnoses does not reflect the underlying phenomena, it reflects arguments about healthcare resource allocation. The actual phenomena are more nuanced
Should we trust someone called Angry_Autist on how black and white we should treat the human psyche? Probably not.
The phrase you are being nudged towards is “false positive”.