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Narcissism Meets Normalcy
Archives for Month: July 2017

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Childhood Sexual Shame and its Effect on Your Adult Sexuality

By Lenora Thompson
Childhood Sexual Shame and its Effect on Your Adult Sexuality

It may be controversial, but I’m grateful for the YouTube videos showing parents telling their children about sex for the very first time. Watching the children’s reactions to hearing about…

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Wait, Was That… Sexual Grooming!?!

By Lenora Thompson
Wait, Was That… Sexual Grooming!?!

Last week, I queried my Facebook friends, most of whom are narcissistic abuse survivors, on the subject of grooming. I asked them if they felt they had been “groomed” by…

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10 Weird Clues That You’re Being Held Against Your Will

By Lenora Thompson
10 Weird Clues That You’re Being Held Against Your Will

On Tuesday, July 18th, 2017, the DailyMail’s site headline sensationally claimed that Jocelyn Savage (21) was being held against her will in a “sex cult” by the singer and songwriter,…

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10 Signs You’re Putting Other People on Pedestals

By Lenora Thompson
10 Signs You’re Putting Other People on Pedestals

If you were raised by a narcissist, then you were taught to put them on a pedestal. Full stop. That’s just how narcissistic parents raise their kids. There’s just one…

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Speedy the Narcissist Meets Another Narcissist

By Lenora Thompson
Speedy the Narcissist Meets Another Narcissist

Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, there lived a narcissist we’ll call Speedy. You’ve met Speedy before in this blog. He was an intelligent narcissist and…

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I Was Complicit in My Own Narcissistic Abuse

By Lenora Thompson
I Was Complicit in My Own Narcissistic Abuse

I am a perpetrator of narcissistic abuse. I carried it out aggressively and single-mindedly. I hurt the person nearest and dearest to me: Myself

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The Narcissist’s Puppet

By Lenora Thompson
The Narcissist’s Puppet

Narcissists don’t always do their own dirty work. They’re far too clever for that. Instead, they work through a kind-of intermediary. A henchman. A puppet.

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15 Ways Fathers Can Raise Boy-Crazy Daughters

By Lenora Thompson
15 Ways Fathers Can Raise Boy-Crazy Daughters

What parent wouldn’t want their daughter to be obsessed with boys? I mean, doesn’t every parent want a boy-crazy daughter!?! I jest, of course. But seriously, as if the attraction…

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Narcissists and Pathological Lying

By Lenora Thompson
Narcissists and Pathological Lying

“Narcissists,” many website say, “are pathological liars.” But I refused to believe it…at first. Oh, I know that narcissists have a reputation for prevaricating around the bush, but my reaction…

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