People with NPD exaggerate their skills, accomplishments, and their degree of intimacy with people they consider high-status.
"I graduated at the top of my class in law school. I was arrested with Nelson Mandela. I used to drive an 18-wheeler."
"Such a sense of personal superiority may cause them to monopolize conversations,[15] or to become impatient and disdainful when other persons talk about themselves.[12] This attitude connects to an overall worse functioning in areas of life like work and intimate romantic relationships.[16][17][18][19] When wounded in the ego, either by a real or a perceived criticism, the narcissist's displays of anger can be disproportionate to the nature of the criticism suffered;[15] but typically, the actions and responses of the NPD person are deliberate and calculated.[12] Despite occasional flare-ups of personal insecurity, the inflated self-concept of the NPD person is primarily stable.[12]
To the extent that people are pathologically narcissistic, the person with NPD can be a self-absorbed control freak who passes blame by psychological projection
"Trump's fault!"
and is intolerant of contradictory views and opinions;
"Listen fat, you're full of shit; I'll slap your face; you're a lying dog-faced pony soldier."
is apathetic towards the emotional, mental, and psychological needs of other people;
"Yeah, so your son was killed in Afghanistan; mine died of cancer. I'd rather talk about that."
and is indifferent to the negative effects of their behaviors, whilst insisting that people should see them as an ideal person.[12] To protect their fragile self-concept, narcissists use psychosocial strategies, such as the tendency to devalue and derogate and to insult and blame other people, usually with anger and hostility towards people's responses to the narcissist's anti-social conduct.[20]
"Listen fat, you're full of shit; I'll slap your face; you're a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Narcissistic personalities are more likely to respond with anger or aggressiveness when presented with rejection.[21][22][23] Because they are sensitive to perceived criticism or defeat, people with NPD are prone to feelings of shame, humiliation, and worthlessness over minor incidents of daily life and imagined, personal slights,[15] and usually mask such feelings from people, either by way of feigned humility, or by responding with outbursts of rage and defiance, or by seeking revenge.[12][13] The merging of the inflated self-concept and the actual self is evident in the grandiosity component of narcissistic personality disorder; also inherent to that psychological process are the defence mechanisms of idealization and devaluation and of denial.[24]
