How many aspiring writers here are narcissists?
I read that Knausgaard believes himself to be rather narcisstic, and also that writers in general have a tendency to be. My own girlfriend recently said I was narcissistic but insisted that it was "sexy".
Are you a narcissist?
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>Men's egotism, so disgusting in the talentless, is the source of their greatness as a sex.
>Are you a narcissist?
Are you stupid?
You ask that as if you'd ask anyone to self-identify with a negative, disordered way of behaving, much less a specific class of people defined by a tendency to ignore the negative and disordered qualities of their persons.
No, nobody would voluntarily consider themselves stupid, dysfunctional or ugly if they had the choice, it's not for you to decide.
Most I have met hate themselves
It's a form of narcissism to think your writing is worth reading. It doesn't take a great deal, and it can be very compartmentalized to the point where it coexists with intense self-loathing about all other aspects of one's self.
I am einzig -- how can I not be, then?
Im a SOCIOPATH XD XD Sometimes when my mom tells me its time for sunday school I don't want to go >:)
I am a narcissit. But its ok in me because I am talented, so fuck it. I have the right to be this way.
I also hate myself.
I am but im also extremely self aware so I can mange it when I want to.
Well, going by my ambitions certainly but I am probably too self-critical to count as full fledged narcissist, then again, part of the reason for being so self-critical is having higher expectations from myself than I have from others. Usually I keep it down to seem "cocky" which is viewed positively ... and caring about how others view me should be another point against full narcissism I guess.
Pretty much every author who thinks his/her work are important/good enough to be published and read by others qualifies for some aspects I'd say.
That's not how narcissists view it though.
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If I am a narcissist it's only because I am the most convenient thing that my obsessive psyche could observe and fixate on.
Given how you just felt the need to display your inner dialogue to a message board, I'm going to vote you a narcissist.
>I also hate myself.
Rightly so, lad. Rightly so.
I am ridiculously narcissistic, particularly about my appearance, of course. I will fuss and fret over how I look to no end.
Only leftists have negative personality traits. So I don't see how I could be a narcissist.
That isn't what narcissistic means
Pretty much this
If you think you're writing is terrible, then it cripples you in developing as a writer. Otherwise, youd be too ashamed to sit down and improve let alone send it out or look for critiques.
Writers also need to have narcissistic tendencies to convince themselves that they have something worthwhile to write about in order to sit down for hundreds of hours wading through their own shit.
Stop making /soc/-lite threads like this where the intention is to just talk about yourself under the pretense of it being related to literature in any way. No. If you're an aspiring writer you're not a writer. You're just some all-talk-no-walk coward who won't ever "get there" and rightfully so because fuck you anyway. Threads like this belong on /soc/.
erica?
Nobody here is a narcissist. If they truly believed in themselves, they wouldn't be here.
>Stop making /soc/-lite threads like this where the intention is to just talk about yourself
this. fuck every /soc/ cunt who answered. i bet you corny faggots still post in survey threads too.
you're no better than your average image obsessed hipster faggot. bunch of self-regarding queens.
I'm probably too much of a nihilistic loner to be considered properly narcissistic. I don't get angry easily, either, though I can be in other ways quite passionate. I don't like seeing weakness in others (or myself).
I can be sort of amoral and self-centered when needed, but I can use my neutral peace of mind to help others as well. When I don't give a fuck about a dead relative, all the better for those who do give a shit; I can help them better that way.
I don't lack cognitive empathy but I do often question whether I really understand others on the level of experience.
I quite believe in myself, no matter what the world around me says; this is not something narcissists really do, not independently of others' admiration.
True tho. I don't even want to "get there", I just want to be a researcher.