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Use this strategy to counter it: - Don’t try to figure out why. That’s what the narcissist wants. You have to let it go. - Don’t glare, ask why, or make any facial expressions. They are looking for your reaction. - Don’t take it personally: it’s not about you. It never was. [Paraphrased to fit.]

THE NARCISSIST SMIRK Used in order to: - Make you feel small, insecure; - Show they know/don't care they’re lying; - Display bravado; - Mock victim's experiences of abuse; - Intimidate and threaten victims; - Deliberately show their lack of remorse. www.onemomsbattle.com/blog/decodin...

Just highlighting the sad irony of this post getting censored as "Adult Content" for an image of an already-censored statue. This is the reason I even posted the link to the article with the image: the point of the post about censorship has been censored. If this wasn't automated, it's juvenile.

LOCUS OF CONTROL Conceptualized as... INTERNAL (a belief that one can control one's own life) or EXTERNAL (a belief that life is controlled by outside factors which the person can not influence, or that chance or fate controls their lives). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_o...

COPING Conscious/unconscious strategies individuals use to reduce or manage unpleasant emotions, to deal with struggles and difficulties in life; it is a way to maintain mental and emotional well-being. Strategies can be healthy/adaptive, or unhealthy/maladaptive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping

BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIOR (BFRB) Impulse-control behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or causing physical injury. Associated with OCD, ADHD, and anxiety. Can be focused on skin, mouth, nails, nose, hair, and/or eyes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body-fo...

SAFETY BEHAVIORS (ANXIETY) Commonly experienced in anxiety disorders. Coping behaviors used to reduce anxiety and fear when the user feels threatened. Might become maladaptive over the long term by prolonging anxiety and fear of nonthreatening situations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_...

PROJECTION The mental process in which an individual attributes their own internal thoughts, beliefs, emotions, experiences, and personality traits to another person or group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychol...

CAPTIVITY Being held captive is a state wherein humans or other animals are confined to a particular space and prevented from leaving or moving freely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity

LOCUS OF CONTROL A person's "locus" is conceptualized as: - INTERNAL (a belief that one can control one's own life) or - EXTERNAL (a belief that life is controlled by outside factors which the person cannot influence, or that chance/fate controls their lives). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_o...

PEASANT A laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. Three classes existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants. Can hold title to land by any of several forms of land tenure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant

COMMONS Cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth that groups of people manage for individual and collective benefit. Held in common privately or publicly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

COMMONER An ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status. A member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy. Elevated persons (i.e. clergy) may have had higher social status in their own right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoner

VULGARITY The quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined. May refer to language, visual art, social class, or social climbers. To be aware of vulgarity is to display a degree of sophistication which thereby elevates the subject above the vulgar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgarity

PROFANITY Lack of respect for things that are sacred, which implies anything inspiring or deserving of reverence. Showing disrespect or causing religious offense. Not related to the sacred. In this sense it is similar in meaning to "secular." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profane...

SACREDNESS Dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity. Worthy of spiritual respect or devotion. Inspires awe or reverence among believers. Often ascribed to objects ("artifact" that is venerated, blessed), or places ("sacred ground"). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacredn...

OMNIPOTENCE (NORMAL STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT) Essential to a child's well-being. "Good-enough" mothering is essential to "cope with the immense shock of loss of omnipotence"—as opposed to whatever "prematurely forces it out of its narcissistic universe". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipot...

KING OF THE HILL (GAME) A children's game with the goal of having a single player remain on top of a large hill or similar feature as its "king." Competitors try to take the player's place and remove them, declaring a new king of the hill. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of...

REGIME System of government that determines access to public office, and the extent of power held by officials. Two broad categories: democratic and autocratic. Presence of rulers of both FORMAL and INFORMAL institutions, which adapt to changes to their environment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime

LAND TENURE (French "tenir" means "to hold") The legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_te...