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It's also the basic definition of narcissistic personality disorder, the inability to see other people as anything else but supporting characters in a scripted life about you.

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Diagnosing mental disorders is an extremely complex process. You can't just read something and say, "well, that's pretty much the definition of Disorder X!"

Someone likening life to a movie is pretty out of touch with reality no matter what you call it. That was the only point of my comment.

movies are representational of reality, some more than others. How is this so far from "life is but a stage"?

It seems like a short-handed narrative for purpose of communicating a train of thought to me.

I think you missed the "we" part.

that's another trait of narcissists, they think their behavior is normative.

Is there a disorder in the DSM wherein the subject labels others as having disorders based on a single written sentence and nothing more?

So, basically...if he thinks he's special he is a narcissist, and if he thinks he is not special, he is a narcissist?

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