How do you know if you are a narcissist?

Like does a narcissist know they are one?

Is there a narcissist test one can do?

I don't, there's about five to six tests out there that are designed to detect

narcissism in its various ways. All of them have flaws like I said and it's not even

fully the fault of the tests because this is a very difficult

thing to measure right we're at we're trying to measure things that are not socially desirable right that's

really tough to measure so a lot of the narcissism tests will measure things like

some entitlement, assertiveness, self-importance that people may not find as offensive, but the research actually shows that

narcissistic people overestimate their empathy and underestimate their negative effect on other people.

They do not have a clear look at themselves.

They really have an almost diluted sense

of who they are and how they go through the world.

So when a person says to me, I think I'm narcissistic,

I always say, hold the presses.

You need to tell me a little bit about you.

Because there's a lot of people out there

who think of themselves as narcissistic

because they're in relationships with narcissistic people who have told them

over the years you are such a selfish person because this unfortunate person is doing simple things like saying,

hey could we go where I want to go for dinner once or I want to talk about my feelings and then

their narcissistic partner saying, oh my gosh, you're so selfish, and they're really

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