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the abusive narcissist flowchart:

why did you do x?

[explain yourself] -> "stop giving excuses!"

[don't explain yourself] -> "see? you can't even explain yourself!"

[realising both a and b are bad answers, say 'i don't know'] -> "of course you know, stop lying!"

[point out the fact nothing you can say will be enough for them] -> "don't talk back to me!"

[having gone through this entire process hundreds of times in your childhood, simply dissociate and stare into the middle distance] -> "don't you dare ignore me!"

[apologise for whatever they believe you did, even though you don't feel like you have a reason to apologise] -> "sorry isn't good enough!"

[don't apologise] -> "aren't you even sorry?!"
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