Psychology.
When The Narcissistic Rage Is So Crazy It’s Funny.
Six things the narcissists did that made me laugh, eventually.
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Narcissists can be hilarious when you look at them from the outside and know exactly what you’re dealing with, as they say, knowledge is power. Psychoeducation is touted as the best treatment for narcissistic abuse victims, I say laughing comes in at a close second.
“Did you know that narcissist spelled backwards is asshole? Well if they can make shit up, so can we.” — Unknown.
As victims, trauma bonds cause us to overlook all the stupid attempts to pull us down, push us away from those we love, and even the obvious lies and drama they cause. We know damn well that they’re talking absolute crap, but we take it because we’ve tried over and over AND OVER again to shut their lying traps and get some honesty out of them.
Narcissists are liars, manipulators, and control freaks with absolutely no intention of ever telling the truth. Narcissists don’t believe their lies as some people think, no matter how much they try to convince themselves and others that they’re anything but the false image they portray, narcissists know they’re lying.
I bet you’ve had a good laugh at how ridiculous narcissists can behave. Yes, it was hell dealing with them and the suffering is no laughing matter, but if you haven’t had the chance to see the truth behind all their drama and truly laugh at it all, I suggest you write it down. Here are some funnies I experienced from both my narcissistic ex and his mother during family court.
1. “The social worker drives a bus and the other one works at the warehouse now”.
This is a grandiose statement that my children’s narcissistic father made about family violence social workers on discovering that I was finally going through with the protection order. We had social workers visiting twice-weekly for a few months before we ended up in family court.
When the social workers wrote their witness statements and he was going through the prescribed anger-management course at the family violence centre, he tried to convince me that the social workers who wrote the letters lost their jobs for lying. Apparently, he had seen one on the bus and the other at a local department store.
2. Ramming a bottle cleaner through a teat till it broke.
I don’t know why this was so funny to me, but I could not stop laughing. Our second child was born six weeks early and I had been struggling to breastfeed under all the stress from the violence so I was using bottles for formula top-ups. Bottle-feeding meant the narcissist could get involved.
Anyway, further down the track, I was at that ugly ‘taking them back too many times’ stage and he was at my kitchen sink showing me how to properly clean a baby bottle while ranting and screaming at me about what a useless mother I was blah blah blah when suddenly the brush broke straight through the teat. He really packed it then.
The look on his face when I just laughed and laughed was priceless. I think I had reached a point where I knew I wasn’t going to have to put up with him for much longer. It was also very satisfying seeing him fail while “teaching me how to parent.”
3. Held my boob while I breastfed to show me how to do it properly.
An innocent bystander who hasn’t dealt with narcissists might not realize the above is a control tactic and think he’s only trying to help; that’s a huge sign you’re dealing with a narcissist — they make sure that their manipulation and control looks like “only trying to help.” No, they’re not, stop being so naive! I know because I’ve been there.
I was very fortunate that our nurse was switched on and recognized the signs right away, not necessarily that he was a narcissist, but definitely that he was a controlling little prick.
To my surprise, when the nurse saw him holding my boob she flicked his hand away, I loved that she was old school cool, never mind those niceties. I think by then the whole special care baby unit had quite enough of both of us with all the drama, he was eventually kicked out, thank goodness.
4. The mother’s snatching, snarling, sniggering, and sulking.
I have to say the mother of my narcissistic ex was the most amusing, possibly because she didn’t get the opportunity to instil any fear in me. Also, she’d been behaving the same way for over 50 years so was well past ever learning anything, especially about how obvious her manipulation tactics were.
The silent treatment is the mother’s favourite weapon, but besides that is her incessant toddler-like behaviour. She would snarl, snap, and sulk if she didn’t get her way and snigger when she did.
The mothers most memorable snatchy tanty was when the lawyers suggested we exchange phone numbers at mediation. The mother purposely handed the paper with her number on it to my daughter who naturally took it, then she snatched it from her to pass to me.
It was so odd seeing a grown woman look so smug about snatching a piece of paper, an adult snatching to purposely cause friction was weird enough. Looking back I wish I didn’t take it and simply said that we have it thanks. It was the last order of business; I just wanted the hell out.
5. “I’m the only one that can control him.”
I couldn’t believe it when the mother screamed that she was the only one that could control my narcissistic ex at the mediation, she went full rage and ended it with the perfect sentence. The sentence that sealed her fate and saved my children from her manipulation and (she said it) control.
The mother seemed to have no shame when it came to manipulation. She wrote a 16-page affidavit after they had several “family meetings” that was so full of lies, it only proved that they weren’t quite in their right minds. The judge stated that she was perpetuating the violence and the lawyers soon had her removed from all communication.
In the end, she wrote a letter stating that they were no longer going to supervise or visit the children because their father wasn’t bothering to turn up to visits. Of course, her story is that I’m the evil mother of the children who keeps them from her darling grandchildren, who she only met three or four times, mostly thanks to her son needing someone to supervise him.
6. The mother sent information from Facebook about narcissists to my children’s lawyer.
Lawyers are generally pretty well-educated people, they’re unlikely to believe, or have any interest in, a bunch of rubbish posted on Facebook about narcissists. The courts see narcissists every day, they know exactly what they’re dealing with.
Interestingly, the mother had given up targeting me at that stage and was back to gaslighting and scapegoating her son and annoying the beep out of my children’s lawyer with tales of his narcissism and drug addiction. She was blocked and told not to post any more public Facebook memes targeted at either myself or her son.
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Thank you for reading.❤
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