It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing “OCD” used casually, but “NPD” would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to “narcissistic” as a character trait.
As a random comment reader, you are correct in your assessment. I can deduce NPD is “narcissistic personality disorder” from having read “narcissistic” in your previous comment but it’s much less familiar than OCD.
I think we all have a duty to communicate ethically moreso than to communicate clearly. People are used to hearing the partial version of NPD because of cultural stigma. We know more than them, and that means we have a duty to educate them.
I think we all have a duty to communicate ethically moreso than to communicate clearly.
Uh, the whole point of communication is clarity, otherwise you’re just making noises. Communication requires that the recipient understands the intended message.
Communicating clearly is also important. But communicating ethically is more important. Like most people, I’d rather be called a nice word I don’t know than a homophobic slur I understand perfectly well. Wouldn’t you?
It was for brevity and clarity. People are very familiar with hearing “OCD” used casually, but “NPD” would have sounded too specific and clinical compared to “narcissistic” as a character trait.
Neil Patrick Derris?
As a random comment reader, you are correct in your assessment. I can deduce NPD is “narcissistic personality disorder” from having read “narcissistic” in your previous comment but it’s much less familiar than OCD.
I think we all have a duty to communicate ethically moreso than to communicate clearly. People are used to hearing the partial version of NPD because of cultural stigma. We know more than them, and that means we have a duty to educate them.
Speak for yourself bozo
Uh, the whole point of communication is clarity, otherwise you’re just making noises. Communication requires that the recipient understands the intended message.
Communicating clearly is also important. But communicating ethically is more important. Like most people, I’d rather be called a nice word I don’t know than a homophobic slur I understand perfectly well. Wouldn’t you?
Communicating clearly is fundamental to communicating at all. If it isn’t clear, it isn’t communication.
And my mother said if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Communicating ethically is more important than communicating at all.