Checklist
The narcissist checklist
Behaviours named plainly, without reaching for the diagnosis.
The point is not a label. The point is to trust the instrument—your own perception—that was working perfectly well all along.

Behaviours named plainly, without reaching for the diagnosis.
The one that always has a fair-sounding reason your feeling wasn't quite accurate.
The perceptions worth trusting again.
A quiet correction, years in the making, that changed everything he asked for.