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seriously? I'm stating my feelings, fuck off
WOW! What a curious reaction. Is that intentional to create more of the curiosity about you that you hoped for [as when you said:
], or is that an angry reaction to the curiosity about you? As in, does that reveal you didn't actually hope for curiosity about you, or even that you are now discovering that you don't actually like it, now that you've got what you hoped for?
Very curious reaction. Joe says they want someone to actually be curious about Joe. Someone shows up, curious about Joe. Joe tells them to fuck off.
See?
Evidently. LOL.
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Edit: PS: All the more amusing, seeing again the OP: Neurodivergents will trigger people that avoid self-reflection simply by asking follow-up questions and being curious about them.
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Starting off accusing someone of begging for attention is not a good way to start an earnest conversation, you have no idea what my life has been life up to this point and what I have gone through or been through. It's not curious to not want to talk to an asshole, goodbye and fuck off again
Yes, this still seems like narcissistic injury and darvo. The strawman, the poor-me drama. Yup.
No accusation was made. A curiosity about a possibility that seemed to fit was shared, in the form of a question, which may have helped offer a cue to introspection. ... Narcissism has us react poorly to such invitations to curiously exploring such.
A curiosity, that was [even more on the nub] offered, straight off the back of a statement wishing for someone to be curious about you. Wish fulfillied. And met with narcissistic tactics, to evade accountability, and to provoke more attention and extract more supply via.
Narcissism spotting's fun.
Non narcissists entertain these things. Narcissists see them as threats, and go on attack, and deploy all the tell-tale tactics narcissists use.
We're all susceptible to slipping deeper into deploying such selfish nefarious ignorant delusional ways subconsciously. How we handle it when confronted about it, is a reasonable measure for how far we've slipped, how bad it has gotten. Best nip it in the bud, long before it passes that tipping point (where we'd no longer introspect or have any will to improve) and it becomes our personality.
There's no shame in the truth.
[PS... I had imagined the possibility of my original comment being met with joyous laughter at the comedic insight... did not at all expect I'd actually stepped on a narcissistic land-mine. Hah! "It must be a trap." "Then why are you still going?!" "I want to find out what kind of a trap it is." [-Akira 1988]. Glorious curiosity. I guess for some people, curiosity's like freedom. They think they want it, but then when they get it "NOT LIKE THAT!" LOL.]