This. I've honestly been uncomfortable with this thread because of the whole "Personality Disorders/mental illness = BAD PERSON" mindset going on.
Narcissists can be harmful, but those who seek help to alter their behavior deserve some credit. Personality disorders are REALLY hard to live with, deal with and treat. It also takes a lot of mental strength and self awareness- or love of the people around them- to admit they have a problem and seek therapy and DBT/CBT to work on fixing their harmful behavior.
Alternatively, there could be something else going on. Natron could be autistic or have Borderline Personality Disorder- both have extremely black and white thinking and stubborn mindsets (and neither make a person BAD, just different.)
I don't know whether Natron is a 'bad' person, but they are an annoying one. annoying doesn't equal bad either. That is also why I am not trying to diagnose them, because I don't know them personally, so can only judge from what I have seen.
I tend to be leery of trying to diagnose people online, because people can be completely different in real life. Natron could be the best person you could know in real life, but they want to 'have fun' on a dragon pet site, so could have made up this whole 'personality' that they use while playing it. We just don't know (it isn't likely, but still possible)
My personality is different in real life as well, if you met me in person, you would be lucky to get two words from me. I definitely do not like face to face meetings, nor do I really like talking aloud. But online, I can engage with perfect strangers, and type novellas trying to explain my thoughts with ease. I don't make up personalities/personas to play petsites with (mainly because I would never be able to keep it straight) but I know others who will have 'characters' that they become in certain instances.
But again, I don't think Natron is 'bad', just as I don't feel that most of the people who get complained about are 'bad'. They tend to be just annoying, which is different.
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Re: natron
(Anonymous) 2022-02-11 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)Narcissists can be harmful, but those who seek help to alter their behavior deserve some credit. Personality disorders are REALLY hard to live with, deal with and treat. It also takes a lot of mental strength and self awareness- or love of the people around them- to admit they have a problem and seek therapy and DBT/CBT to work on fixing their harmful behavior.
Alternatively, there could be something else going on. Natron could be autistic or have Borderline Personality Disorder- both have extremely black and white thinking and stubborn mindsets (and neither make a person BAD, just different.)
Re: natron
(Anonymous) 2022-02-11 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)I tend to be leery of trying to diagnose people online, because people can be completely different in real life. Natron could be the best person you could know in real life, but they want to 'have fun' on a dragon pet site, so could have made up this whole 'personality' that they use while playing it. We just don't know (it isn't likely, but still possible)
My personality is different in real life as well, if you met me in person, you would be lucky to get two words from me. I definitely do not like face to face meetings, nor do I really like talking aloud. But online, I can engage with perfect strangers, and type novellas trying to explain my thoughts with ease. I don't make up personalities/personas to play petsites with (mainly because I would never be able to keep it straight) but I know others who will have 'characters' that they become in certain instances.
But again, I don't think Natron is 'bad', just as I don't feel that most of the people who get complained about are 'bad'. They tend to be just annoying, which is different.