So Bob emails what do you say? Yeah, this emails from an honest middle-tier patron. She is a

professor in interpersonal communication and she says, I had a student who disclosed a student

who disclosed that he was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. He actually disclosed this

to the entire class during his introduction. He had a couple of interactions that made me uncomfortable

for example. He looked up my dissertation and wanted to talk about his opinions on it.

He also frequently wanted to argue about research that wasn't relevant to the class.

He also frequently talked over other students and interrupted to try and correct me during lectures

or activities. So just chime in here. What are your thoughts on that? Sounds irritating

and also workable. Yeah. If he does have narcissistic personality disorder, which is not necessarily

the case or at the very least I wouldn't diagnose it with narcissistic personality, then that's

the possibility. But if he does, then he is someone who because of the neglect he went through early

in life, he defensively tries to take up more space because in a historic way, he gains

more attention than he would otherwise and he needs that attention. He needs acknowledgement

that he's smart and superior so that he can feel safe essentially. And so for him to sit still

in a class and listen or appropriately interact with people, that's overwhelmed by his desire

for narcissistic supply because without it, he feels extremely inferior as if he's nothing and

that he's going to be abandoned and harmed or something. So he has this compulsion to

voice his opinions to talk over other people. He also has this blind spot to other people's feelings

because of the defensive structure. It's not a conscious choice. So the fact that he

said, hey, my name is Mike and I don't know if that's his name, but my name is Mike and I have

narcissistic personality disorder is a lot better than if he hadn't said something. Now there's

another possibility that he's psyched. I have a narcissistic personality disorder so that gives me

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