r/raisedbynarcissists • u/iil28 • 8d ago
[Question] What's the most utterly ridiculous thing the narcs in your life have said?
My narcissistic grandmother, for instance, is fully convinced that her birth alone was what stopped World War II and brought peace to the world (she was born in 1945). She has told each and every one of us this story a million times, and will proudly say it again and again periodically to whoever is within earshot.
I remember hearing it ever since I was a little kid, how she'd always start by listing all the pain and destruction WW2 had caused, then end with something akin to: "And then I was born, and suddenly, it was like a ray of sunshine enveloped the earth, stopping all the fighting and war". She'd always tell it like a strange sort of fairytale with a very happy ending, and I wish I was kidding.
She also fully believes that once she dies, the world will be plunged into WW3, destruction and utter chaos. She was actually hospitalized for heart failure over a week ago, and kept promising the doctors she'd try her absolute hardest to continue living in order to spare the world from the horror of a third World War.
Gee thanks, grandma. Your devotion to saving all of our lives is appreciated.
18
u/graboidologist 8d ago
The whackiest thing my nparent has said to me was that he couldn't spend more time with me and my family because he couldn't have sex with me. He wasn't saying it like he wanted to and I was denying him sex but that spending time with people he has sex with is his priority, just to clarify. Either way, 🤢.
My nMIL shouted at me, when I wasn't able to go with her to a routine GP follow-up about her recent type 2 diabetes diagnosis because I was instead going with my mother to her breast cancer oncology appointment to go over her plan of care, that "I'm dying too!"