Originally Posted by PohsFriend

Someone with NPD, if forced to endure an hour on this site, would scoff at the 12 steps. When challenged they would read through your history not to understand your perspective but to find your obvious fears and insecurities so they could guess, probably very accurately, to find the exact response they needed to make you feel completely worthless, embarrassed, pathetic and ashamed. If you then said "hey - that really hurt, I didn't mean to offend you" they'd see the faint reflection of a contented smile on their face as they saw that they'd hit the mark.... Then they'd go one level deeper, just for satisfaction... Not fun, they are incapable of joy as we understand it.

It's conceivable that I'm not entirely my usual warm fuzzy self when this topic comes up.