5 Types of Traumatic Intelligence Only Narcissistic Abuse Survivors have

Number five: you have the miraculous ability to instantly identify the hidden narcissist in any room. Before the abuse, you were probably completely blind to toxic people because it was your norm. You didn’t know better. You walked through the world assuming everyone had a good heart and honest intentions.

You look at people at face value, but walking through the terrifying fire of narcissistic abuse completely burned away your innocence and gave you a permanent, highly tuned—or tuned—radar system. Now, when you walk into a new job, a crowded party, or a casual social event, you possess psychological night-vision goggles. You can spot the hidden narcissist in a pitch-black room almost immediately.

You do not just listen to the charming, polite words people say. You watch the invisible strings attached to their hands. You notice exactly who subtly controls the eye contact in the room. You notice who interrupts others with a fake dead smile. You catch the microscopic involuntary twitches around their eyes that show their fake mask is slipping.

Like a master counterfeit detector running forensic UV light over a beautifully printed fake $\text{“}\$100\text{”}$“$100” bill, your brain automatically scans the environment to keep you out of danger. You can hear the microscope in their perfect mask before it. You have developed an elite threat detection system.

You will never ever be fooled by the cheap magic trick again because your traumatic intelligence allows you to see the dirty mechanics behind the illusion.

When you look at these five incredible, hard-earned abilities, you absolutely have to stop telling yourself that you are weak, broken, or ruined. You have survived a brutal psychological war zone, and your brain did magnificent, brilliant, and complex things to keep you alive. You’re not damaged goods. You are incredibly intelligent, highly evolved, and fiercely resilient.

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