A court-appointed counselor once implied that it’s because I’m a narcissist. I had replied that that can’t be true, because in my dreams, this alternate version of me is often calling me a loser. The therapist had said that being a narcissist doesn’t necessarily mean you think you’re great; you can just as easily obsess over your flaws, that it’s narcissists who lie in bed and beat themselves up over something embarrassing they said back in middle school. Ultimately, he said, some people just struggle to understand that the whole universe does not revolve around their problems. I told him that
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