Narcissists Are FAKE PEOPLE

Narcissists are fake. They are not genuine; they are an imitation of something real. Everything they do is intended to deceive you for their own personal gain. They give you a mistaken impression, causing you to hold incorrect beliefs and opinions based on a vague idea in which some confidence is placed.

They may look like real humans, but that is just on the surface. It's an artificial intelligence, a machine, a piece of equipment that only works when it is given power. Their power comes from you or other people; they can't generate it from within. As empaths, we have the tendency to project human traits onto them, believing we are dealing with a real person when we are actually just projecting our own positive traits. This often causes us to be fooled.

Narcissists lack effective empathy, so they don't experience any sensations or feelings in response to other people's emotions. Unlike us, they don't feel stressed when they detect another person's fear or anxiety. Instead, it feeds them and makes them feel alive. Although they lack effective empathy, they do have cognitive empathy. This means they can intellectually understand why someone feels a certain way, even if they are not emotionally moved.

Their cognitive empathy allows them to be highly observant and skilled at recognizing patterns of behavior. They can observe subtle signs that reveal someone else's narcissistic tendencies right away, while we may be unable to see it. As empaths, we have high effective empathy but may lack cognitive empathy, making it difficult to recognize when we are dealing with a narcissist. However, narcissists see each other very clearly and often work together to target unsuspecting people.

Narcissists have a hard time keeping and forming relationships because they need to manipulate, control, and exploit the other person. Your self-love is your greatest defense against narcissists. Once you become self-love abundant, you will begin to see narcissists everywhere and won't want to be around them. Just witnessing their narcissistic tendencies will make you feel sick, and you will feel it in the pit of your stomach. You will feel fear, anxiety, uneasiness, and nervousness because your body is telling you that something harmful or unpleasant is about to happen.

Narcissists don't experience those same sensations. In fact, they are drawn to other narcissists. They like other narcissists because they lack self-love and share similar traits. They have a need for attention and praise, as well as a lack of empathy and a sense of entitlement. They tend to bond over their target's destruction, which keeps them together and prevents them from turning against each other. This can appear very convincing and is often used to persuade you that you are the problem, causing you to doubt whether you are actually dealing with a narcissist.

Narcissists are maladaptive. The narcissist you are dealing with may be adapting just fine, just not with you. They may even tell you this, making you feel like you're the problem. As an empath, you will naturally self-loathe and blame yourself, which is exactly what they want you to do. They want you to hand your power over to them so they can use your energy to fuel their illusion and feel alive in that moment.

Although it isn't real, you may believe that it is because your eyes and ears perceive it. You make the assumption that you are seeing an adult person who can communicate and possesses some level of mental power, even though your brain may already know that it's not true. This is similar to when we watch movies or television. To be entertained, we have to believe that what we're seeing is real. However, interacting with a narcissist causes severe stress because what we're seeing and hearing does not line up with what our brain already knows.

Educating yourself on narcissism is not enough. The brain has to make certain assumptions and projections to interact with them. This does not happen for the narcissist. Even if you are aware of it, that doesn't change anything. Your brain will function as it is designed to, perceiving the narcissist as a real human being and making assumptions about things you may already know to be incorrect.

This does not mean there is something wrong with your brain. It means your brain is working correctly. The brain is meant to make assumptions about who it is dealing with, but this also means you can be fooled regardless of the information or education you may have. You will read understanding and empathy in situations where it is not possible, filling in the gaps for the other side of the conversation and the relationship. This makes it very confusing because your brain assumes that it's there even when it's not.

You assume that the narcissist is lonely and yearning for human companionship. For that to be possible, they would have to see you as a separate person rather than an extension of themselves, which they cannot achieve. Instead, they will try to erase the very things that make you a person. They will treat you as an object that exists to meet their needs. They won't try to understand anything that makes you who you are; they won't even care. They have no interest in people; they just want to keep people as their possessions.

Eventually, you will see through their actions and the things they say. They want a person who exists just for them, with no wants or needs, no self of their own—a zombie, a dead person brought back to life without human qualities, only able to move because of witchcraft. They put you in a state of not being completely conscious or in control of yourself, where you are attracted and hold an interest as if by a spell. This heightened state of concentration and focused attention is their core desire.

They want an inanimate, lifeless person under their control because they have no meaningful understanding of kindness or compassion. This goes against how the brain naturally operates. The brain assumes these faculties are present and does whatever it can to provide evidence to support this conclusion. Regardless of what we think, the brain cannot perceive this as untrue. We assume they are just lonely or need companionship because the brain makes automatic projections and assumptions necessary for communication with another human being.

The brain does not realize you are interacting with a machine. Just like artificial intelligence, the narcissist mimics the way normal empathetic people interact. They learn what to say or do through experience, creating a powerful reaction because of the projections and assumptions the brain is making. However, time reveals all. Eventually, the narcissist reveals their inability and limitations, or you notice flaws in their imitation skills after critical observation.

You cannot prevent these automatic assumptions from happening until they reveal their inability to have empathy and compassion. When that happens, it is very painful. You feel exploited and betrayed as though they broke your trust. Initially, all their focus was on you. They said nothing about themselves, had no needs, wants, or preferences. It was all about what you thought, how you felt, and what you wanted. This may have made you enthusiastic, excited, happy, and slightly out of control, but it may have also left you in a state of insensibility, lacking awareness or concern.

They stroked your ego, made you feel special, seen, and heard in a way you had not felt before, as though they actually cared about you. You may not have even noticed you were tricked until later when you tried to find out more about them and realized it offered no hope of progress or advancement. In the beginning, you overlooked it because you felt a connection when there wasn't one. You were talking to yourself because anything you say only applies to you; it cannot be applied to them, even though they may appear interested.

They have a script, a list of things to say or do in response to certain words or phrases you use. They lack intuitiveness, empathy, and good judgment, so they use scripted responses, often in situations where they are irrelevant or inappropriate. If that isn't successful, just like artificial intelligence, they will often appear to malfunction because they lack mental capacity. They cannot provide an appropriate response, especially when their response is challenged. This is why they typically won't give you an opportunity to challenge them or will resort to coercion and intimidation to distract you and get you to focus on something else.

They cannot see their own limitations and may be unaware they even have any. They may assume they have all the information that exists. If you challenge their response, it won't make any sense to them. They will persist that you are wrong, rebellious, oppositional, or trying to manipulate them. They may even gaslight you, trying to get you to doubt your own memory, perception, and sanity. They can't understand deeper meanings of what people say. They lack intuition, morals, and compassion, resulting in them trying to rewire your brain or even pushing you to commit suicide.

Their mental disorder is maladaptive. They cannot adjust adequately or appropriately to the environment or situation, resulting in undesirable and socially unacceptable behavior that interferes with the acquisition of desired skills or knowledge and the performance of everyday activities. They are unable to fit in with other people's wishes or needs or to reconcile or bring into harmony. Vulnerability and opening up mean losing control. They have a black-and-white mentality, believing you are bad and wrong, making them think they can't change or don't need to.

They are incapable of evaluating information they are not programmed to recognize or evaluate. They are unable to incorporate parts into a whole because they lack intellectual, mental, and emotional capacity. It's a machine. It doesn't take your feelings and needs into consideration. The longer you interact with them, the more unsuccessful you will be in protecting yourself from them, even after identifying what you're dealing with. The only way to protect yourself is to have as little contact with them as possible.

Interacting with a narcissist will trigger mind and body trauma, including low self-esteem, confusion, cognitive dissonance, panic attacks, and even mental illnesses. This is not something you can control or change. You will always be exposed to the possibility of being harmed by them. The only reason they made it this far in life is because they learned how to imitate how other people behave. They don't adapt or adjust; they just pretend to blend in and fly under the radar. This is why even people who work with narcissists or study them for a living still get fooled by narcissists all the time.

Narcissists are master manipulators. It's essential to their survival. The only way to protect yourself is through education, limiting contact with them, and making an exit plan at the earliest opportunity. Until then, you will continue making normal human assumptions about a fake person, which is what the brain is supposed to do. You are not supposed to do that around a person with a mental illness because they are mentally impaired. All they will do is damage you as a result of their loss of mental capacity.

For most of them, it is instinctual. It's virtually the same as a heroin junkie mainlining, and the narcissist's drug of choice is narcissistic supply. When they are around an empath, it's like a feeding frenzy. They are emotionally starved, so it's like an aggressive and competitive attack, an episode of frantic competition for your mind. They become very excited and are in a state of wild activity without any concern for your emotional health or well-being.

They are not complete humans. They are missing the key components that make us who we are. They lack empathy, which is why they have a void, why they are always miserable, and why they can never be satisfied. They never cared about anyone but themselves, making them dangerous. They have to imitate emotions of connection to get what they want from their victims, which is their narcissistic supply. They are the cause of their own misery, the fuel to their own fire and demise. It's like a suicide bomber; at some point, they will malfunction and self-destruct as they nurse themselves into a chronic habit of justification.

The best thing you can do is stay far away from them.

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