From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Now, THIS IS How An Adult Speaks - Bonus: Denial In The Narcissistic Mind: Pathological Distortion
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 20:27:03 -0600
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Nope... sorry... THIS is how a psycho child speaks.
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 10:51:59 -0800, Rudy Canoza, forever the mental and physical midget, who was *NEVER* a three sport letterman, like me,
and who was *NEVER* a bouncer, like me, and who was *NEVER* an assistant golf pro, like me, and who was *NEVER* a lifeguard, like me, and
who *NEVER* dunked a basketball, like me, and has *NEVER* laid as many women as me, says...
> the goddamned fucking garbage deplorables
> The goddamned fucking garbage deplorables
> following goddamned fucking garbage deplorable Trump's
THAT is also how you know Trump really won in 2020...
... by conTINUALLY deNYING that the Democrats cheated.
https://i.imgur.com/94lOTEs.mp4
Biden didn't get 81 million votes. His "rallies" usually had a dozen or two at them, so... no... Trump won and the Democrats cheated.
He may have "gotten" those votes, but they were NOT from individual LEGAL votes and voters.
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AlleyCat is one of the several people who dominate Rudy on a daily basis, keeping their bootheels on his little pencil neck to the
amusement of all.
Denial In The Narcissistic Mind: Pathological Distortion
https://www.psychology today.com/us/bog/the-narcissist-in-your-life/202106/denial-in-the-narcissistic-mind-pathological-distortion
Denial in the narcissistic mind: pathological distortion the narcissist's denials of convenience. Unless they are experiencing a psychotic
break from reality, as can happen with... Forms of denial. The narcissist's denial becomes a kind of self-deception in which accurate
perception is ignored ...
Denial is a normal early childhood defense.
Narcissistic people engage in routine forms of denial to distort reality.
Some forms of denial are dismissal, justification, minimization, negation, and reversal.
A refusal to acknowledge a threatening, uncomfortable, or inconvenient truth, denial is a developmentally normal, unconscious defense
mechanism of early childhood. Children may deny a "bad" feeling like jealousy to preserve their self-esteem, or they may deny a
destabilizing feeling like fear of an abusive parent to preserve attachment with that caregiver.
Like shock, short-term denial can function as a temporary protection against the full impact of something painful or overwhelming. But
ongoing denial in adulthood, a defining trait of pathological narcissism, becomes a choice to engage in distortions of reality.
The Narcissist's Denials of Convenience
Unless they are experiencing a psychotic break from reality, as can happen with schizophrenia, people with narcissistic personality
disorder (NPD) know the difference between fact and fiction, truth and lies. But because their personality structure is built around
inflated self-importance (designed to scaffold unstable self-esteem), they hold reality at a distance and filter information to conform to
their wishes. Add to the mix their exaggerated entitlement unmoderated by empathy for others and you have a personality type predisposed to
manipulative and self-serving denials of convenience.
Forms of Denial
The narcissist's denial becomes a kind of self-deception in which accurate perception is ignored and replaced with preferred distortions.
Such distortions can range from subtle misrepresentations to unrecognizable alterations of reality. The following examples of common forms
of denial involve a mother denying her rageful husband's physical abuse of their son.
Dismissal: Dismissing pushes away a fact as unworthy of attention. Example: "That was so long ago I can't remember what actually happened.
Haven't you gotten over that?"
Justification: Justifying rationalizes a fact to make it sound reasonable. Example: "Your father was disciplining you for your own good
because you were out of control and needed a firm hand."
Minimization: Minimizing acknowledges a fact but reduces its importance or effect. Example: "Your father got angry sometimes, but he was
always there for you."
Negation: Negating is an outright disavowal of the truth. Example: "Your father never laid a hand on you, and you know it."
Reversal: Reversing asserts a wishful, fantasy-based opposite version of the truth. Example: "Your father has always been kind and loving
with you. He's a saint, and you're lucky to have him."
Effects of Denial
Sharing information and mirroring reality are primary dimensions of human relationships. In infancy and early childhood, we are almost
entirely reliant on our parents to teach us about ourselves and the world around us. If our principal caregivers and models reflect back
inaccurate or outright false interpretations of reality, it creates ongoing cognitive dissonance between what we feel and perceive and what
we are told is happening. Such distortions lead to degraded trust, alienation from our physical instincts, chronic self-doubt, and other
profound disruptions to our identity development and ability to form attachments.
Overcoming Denial
Children who have ongoing forms of denial normalized at home become more vulnerable to denial-based manipulations and coercion later in
life on the part of narcissistic partners, friends, and others in positions of influence and authority. To overcome such confusion and
vulnerability, it becomes necessary to identify the patterns of denial we have experienced and recontextualize those experiences with our
increased knowledge and understanding.
As we work on separating from the false narratives of narcissistic and otherwise disordered people in our lives, many of us find ourselves
reconstructing reality in alignment with what we have intuitively known to be true for a very long time.