Question - today he said something - I can't remember what exactly, but I questioned him about it and he said he was mirroring me??????? What the heck?????
So does this guy know he's a Narc and does he know about mirroring?????
Opinions please???
Or he'd mimic things he read in "War and Peace." I once told the ex-Psych prof during the final D&D that what we had wasn't inappropriate because we weren't engaging in public displays of affection, that it wasn't physical. Like a lawyer, I argued that emotional intimacy is FINE, but sex, the physical stuff,is a NO-NO. Bizarrely, since he felt(?) guilty about his girlfriend, I think because of what I said, he didn't engage in public displays of affection with his girlfriend(??) He took what I said out of context, applied it to a totally different situation... and it didn't make sense. I talked about a jealous character in a French Neoclassical play who falsely accuses her stepson when she finds out he loves someone else, and I told the ex-P I would NOT do it to him because he had a girlfriend... he ended up falsely accusing me.
He took his mimicry to surreal heights. In all seriousness, he once said that he's a professor because his father is a professor. He'd be telling me what to eat&feign concern because his father is diabetic (yes,it true's,something he did NOT lie about), as if I were diabetic.
The ex-P wanted to be mirrored, but it depended on what HE wanted. I got the same translation of "War and Peace" as him... and he was LIVID. I was baffled. Why was he so freaked out¶noid? He was interested in Wittgenstein. I'd bring up Wittgenstein... he'd swiftly change the subject (or go silent treatment)
His stock response to me mocking him the same way he had mocked me was to RUN OFF.
He totally lacked imagination, and in a weird way, very suggestible. When I told him that if I were paranoid about students reading his writing without paying, I told him to get published. He is a published writer.
When you slap someone in the face, you know you are doing it right? And not somebody else. They do that purposely for HOOKING you, to keep you there, as longer as possible.
They are dead inside..and run from feelings and emotions, like alien form, lol. From everything "human" and "happy". Their need of control, comes from fear of being abbandoned.
And I`ve said it before as a joke, that my ex N, is probably in love with his MOTHER! Or maybe he`s gay, or who knows. It comes a time, when even those things don`t matter anymore, because your survival, and life, matters more.
they already know this, my narc used to say to me...i mimic people used, and i used to say i know that, its cos you have no personality...and this was b/f the days of the internet, or in fact even narsissism was unheard of.....
they are EMPTY VESSELS...so they learn something from everyone they have ever known,and then use it forever..
Mine used to say things especially when we would reunite about missing me that sounded eerily familiar--like maybe comments or phrases I had said to him on the subect? I told myself I was just having odd deja vu moments, but I firmly believe now this is part of their mirror/mimic skillset to call upon when feelings are required. Plus it's a good private joke. "No wonder she is impressed by that--she said it!"
Ugh.
He would imitate things I said...
When you slap someone in the
Does he have access to your
Good question DS
maybe he does, maybe he's
how could i
this is so true!