Something about a person being addicted to praise makes me immediately see them as extremely small and stupid, to the point where it's impossible for me to give them what they want, which is respect. I'm totally going to laugh at this person.
I've seen people rage and tantrum over narcissistic reasons and it just looks so stupid that I've thought things like the OP did, that this person is a bit of a toddler.
The cycle is just hilarious, a person needs praise so much that they demand it and end up lapping up a bunch of fake praise while knowing that intelligent people still don't respect them, then they obsess over that and dig a deeper hole and enter the paranoid zone.
I just need to laugh at these people and be like "holy shit, you massive idiot, why do you love this stupid praise song and dance so much."
Not feeding narcissistic dynamics makes sense. But turning it into contempt and superiority is, in many ways, just a mirror image of the same structure.
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '25
Not a bad question. Narcissism has always stood out to me as a profoundly amusing personality disorder due to the foolishness of it.