If You Do These 7 Things, You Were Raised by a Narcissist (And Don’t Even Know It)

The "Personality Traits" That Are Actually Childhood Survival Strategies Still Running Your Adult Life

Sep 23, 2025

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A frightened young boy with teary eyes sits in dim lighting while a sinister-looking woman with dark eye makeup and a menacing grin wraps her arm around his shoulder, creating a disturbing contrast between their expressions.

You think your childhood was normal. You think every family is like yours. You think everyone apologizes for existing.

They don’t.

After surviving a therapist who extorted $126,000 from me, years of therapy unpacking my childhood, and thousands of conversations with other survivors, I’ve learned something that changed everything: The “quirks” you think ma…

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