Today, everyone and their mother is a narcissist. That’s the general consensus on social media, anyway, where even the slightest misgiving – not replying to texts, arriving 10 minutes late, or even, wearing odd socks! – is enough to diagnose someone with a controversial and potentially dangerous personality.
You might think I’m being hyperbolic but I’m not; take a look for yourself at the litany of videos on TikTok and Instagram listing different “signs the person you’re dating might be a narcissist”. A brief foray presents me with symptoms such as “he gets mad when people criticise him” (social media’s narcissists are almost always male, by the way), “he’s a perfectionist” and “he loves compliments”.
