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        Man the ableist comments here really suck :(

        Please stop insinuating: disabled = stupid, or disabled = horrible people.

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          Hmm, does narcissism and similar count as a disability? Otherwise. there literally isn’t a disability that makes you a dick.

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            nope. narcissism is not a disability, according to a quick google search.

            And even so NPD the clinical diagnosis is very different from what layman call “narcissism”.

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              What, you mean if someone says something mean to me, I can’t diagnose them with NPD right there? /s

              nope. narcissism is not a disability, according to a quick google search.

              No offense intended, but that’s kind of a shitty way to answer questions about bioethics. I feel like a few years back that would have linked you to Yahoo! Answers.

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                  Much better, but still, it’s not the kind of question that can be answered with an appeal to authority. I could look inside for their reasoning, but paywall.

                  Edit: I’m poking around a bit for a preprint or something, but kind of coming up empty. I was more hoping to start a discussion here, anyway.

                  Like, if a disability is a permanent medical condition that makes it hard to live a normal life, shouldn’t cluster B disorders count? A niggle for narcissism is that they often become more successful in life than control populations, which is horrifying, but you could sub in disorganised sociopaths or whatever non-DSM group of neuroatypical deviants you want.

                  If it is a disability, does that change how we treat them? I’d actually guess not, you don’t let blind people drive taxis, after all. Damage reduction still takes precedence over personal freedom.

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                    2 months ago

                    From what I’ve read it should be considered a disability in my opinion.

                    But it seems it was removed from the DSM with some psychologists and psychiatrists saying it wasn’t a legitimate condition/disability. (what the NYT article covers)