Ariadne Conill 🐰
IQ and other psychometric assessments are not actually backed by hard science but vibes
so when someone brags about having a "genius level IQ", just write them off as a narcissist
sincerely, your local psychologist turned software engineer
✧✦Catherine✦✧@ariadne what does a psychologist say about narcissism anyway
i've seen probably every possible take on the internet by now
@whitequark its complicated, I think in a lot of situations narcissistic behavior develops out of self loathing and the discovery that they can self soothe through maladaptive behavior
@ariadne that's useful and reasonable but i was thinking about something different
i think in practice i've mostly seen "narcissist" be used as an insult and as a leverage in an attack. this made it really hard historically to figure out how, if at all, one can make good conclusions about that type of behavior and its observations
@whitequark oh yes, it has definitely become an insult in pop culture