so when i was younger, my dad gifted me a book he helped write. i was in second grade and it was his only copy. i got bullied a lot at that school and someone must have stolen it. either way, it was over a decade ago. people laughed at me and the teacher yelled at me to sit back down, and i remember leaving to get something and checking back and it was gone.

my dad will switch often between being very nice and loving, then mad and stuff over the book, for example, then when i say idk where it is, he sends a bunch of heart emojis, acts more excited than usual, and says “thank you anyway!!!! <3”

furthermore, he will get into arguments easily which is also why he cant land a job, and then will get mad when someone is not “on his side”, calling people traitors and stuff for refusing to do favors for him and switching between really kind and loving to really mean and angry when someone doesn’t do what he wants.

he’s too self-absorbed to get a diagnosis and not self-aware enough, but everyone says he’s narcissistic.

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[–] 19 points 7 months ago*

I'm not into psychology stuff but it is NOT normal.

My father is narcissistic but it's not one minute or the other. He acts nice in front of other people, and abusive when he is only with me. Like he would say I'm the greatest programmer ever when talking about me, but would tell me that I'm a failure and I don't know how to use a computer when I visit him and no one else is at home.

Suffice to say that if my mother dies first, I won't talk to him anymore and he'll be alone. But he will still complain that I abandoned him because I'm a bad guy.

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    Yeah, I agree. No matter how upset I am with my kid, we sit down and talk about it. Make sure he understands why it's wrong or why he got in trouble. I also don't get upset with basic bullshit. Like he got his watch taken away in school for texting in class, hope he learned his lesson. My reply was to be sneakier, don't make it obvious and not when you should be doing other things.

    He rolled his eyes once and a teacher got mad, whole phone conference and everything. I laughed, told him it is his teachers classroom, show a little more respect, end of story.

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  • Short answer: no, that's abuse.

    It's entirely possible that he's a narcissist, from what you describe - especially if other people are saying that as well. Mind you, that's not the important part.

    The important part is that this is obviously hurting you. And something tells me this isn't the only thing that he does that messes you up. Do whatever you can do get out of that household. It ain't gonna be easy, but it will be worth it. Trust me.

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  • [+] 5 points 7 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    maybe he didn’t publish it, i assume

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That sounds a bit like borderline.

    I'm nothing like a psychologist though, just a possibility :)

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    My mom would cuddle with me and then yell at me

    She is the person I'm most emotionally attached to, and simultaneously someone I'm terrified of...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    He's still cut up over something that happened over a decade ago?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I knew someone who was like this; eventually they discovered lawyers, and all their relationships fell apart, including their marriage. They seemed to think that punishing someone by suing them (even if they lost — it was always their lawyers fault then) was a way of resolving their relational difficulties.

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