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CW: parental neglect & trauma, ableist slurs I'm an adult child with a narcissistic father. No, I'm not using that terminology lightly; he fits the exact type of individual afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. To be clear, I don't think having NPD or any other personality disorder automatically condemns somebody to be a bad person; it will complicate the process of navigating interpersonal relationships, like many other mental disorders, but it doesn't make the navigation impossible. That being said, I need to be very clear about this: there isn't an estrangement epidemic, adult children like myself are just tired of...