You can guarantee that by the time a victim tries to expose a narcissist/predator they have been abused relentlessly & often. The abuse may be emotional, reputational, physical…If someone presents you with evidence about their abuser, please have the kindness to listen.

Human predators/narcissists invented the saying “don’t get hurt, get even”! Predators have a pathological anger response when exposed or compromised in some way. They do not feel the emotion of hurt. Nothing remotely like that. They become pathologically intent on vengeance.

Narcissists (malignant)/psychopaths are absolutely NOT on a spectrum. It’s absolute. You are either a predator or you are not. Predators have a set of 20 attributes and use a set of 25 tactics to avoid accountability and harm others. Who wins if narcissism is considered to be on a spectrum? Predators/narcissists. You can never actually be classified as one! You just have a higher level of traits. Who wins if some narcissists are considered to be more dangerous than others? Higher functioning narcissists in roles such as medicine, law, academia, psychology. They refer to themselves as ‘narcissist light’ or ‘prosocial narcissist’. Don’t be fooled. Those who do not harm physically, harm emotionally or financially or mentally in an equally destructive manner. They are all equally dangerous, but they will manipulate the hell out of everybody to maintain their position of control/power and avoid accountability. When you see someone talking about a spectrum in relation to narcissism/predators, you can be guaranteed that that person is either themselves a human predator or they have been manipulated by a human predator.

True predators feel pathological anger when people don’t do what they expect. It’s not like normal fear. It’s like a lion when it has its lunch taken away from it.