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Comment by sparrish | Hacker News Reader

Just like a narcissist to write a post about himself. <grin>

If you read further in, you find out they are offering counselling without a degree or any particular qualifications. Of course they are, as a world-leading very special expert... ;)

Sometimes people just need a self aware person to talk to with the same issues they have, if the guy can make money at it, more power to him.

"Since I’ve been diagnosed with it, I’ve done everything I can to get familiar with the concept of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. I became somewhat of a specialist myself..."

Yeah...

Also, advertising.

"The fact that I did a lot of research on narcissism provides me with a side job that I make money from. I can help people that have problems related to NPD, or people being victimized by someone with NPD, and help them deal with it."

Dude has a kid but hasn't had a job in 10 years, other than a side gig as a quack. Oh man.

The article is written by a journalist and contains an interview of a man with narcissism; I don't think this qualifies as someone writing a post about themself even independent of narcissism.

There were about 200 instances of "I" in that post.

Is it surprising that you find what you're looking for when you enter into an article with a preset expectation? You all should try having a more open mind. The prospect that someone with NPD might actually be capable of making a positive difference on people outside themselves is promising.

Most of the article is the author asking the person questions about himself; I'm not sure how anyone could give proper answers to those questions without using first person pronouns.

Brewdad could refer to myself in the third person.

> I spoke to one such person, a 46-year-old man who was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder in his mid-30s and was treated for years afterward. [I’ll note here that while his English is pretty much perfect, it is his second language; he is Dutch, and lives in the Netherlands.] That conversation, which has been edited for length, is below.

It seems pretty clear to me that the author is not the person who's answering the questions.

EDIT: I see what you're saying, but it would be more strange to answer questions like that than in the first person. I don't think I've ever read an interview where the interviewee didn't respond to questions in the first person.

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