when the narcissistic person plays down your experience to the point where they might outright deny it. Narcissistic abuse often entails having your feelings minimized with statements such as “It’s not that big a deal” or “I don’t understand why something so small is bothering you.” It’s a minimization not only of your feelings and experience but also of your achievements, for example, trivializing a promotion you received or the difficulty of completing your degree at school. There is a hypocrisy to the minimization: when something happens to the narcissistic person, they feel entitled to it
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