Weakness number 3: Impressionable.
The narcissist would be very ashamed, probably narcissistically mortified, if they found out that you had found out how very impressionable and naive they are. The narcissist, the grandiose narcissist, will want to present themselves often as worldly, knowing, charming, and cognizant. Somebody who has an understanding of life and of the world but in truth, they are woefully naive and very, very impressionable.
We think of the narcissist as a sort of con artist, as somebody who can trick people, as a kind of criminal predator. But the truth is that the narcissist is actually extremely vulnerable to being conned themselves, because their capacity to distinguish reality from fantasy is massively damaged, by their grandiosity.
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So attached to their grandiosity are they, that they really cannot see reality just as it is. They really don’t want you to know just how impressionable and naive they are, because it’s not congruent with the self-image that they would like to project to you unless you are dealing with a fragile, vulnerable narcissist, and they will want to elevate and amplify how vulnerable they are, in which case they won’t mind you saying how naive and impressionable they are. But generally speaking, this will be a weakness.
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