• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    paranoia: I’m not seeing it.

    Really? Trump is super paranoid, he literally believes when he claims there’s witch hunt against him. Also your list is not the most important things, the malignant narcissist is an extreme psychopath and 100% Trump has zero empathy.

    better explained by ADHD

    I disagree, what looks like ADHD is his narcissism combined with stupidity. Trump is a very stupid guy, there was even a teacher that claimed he was the stupidest pupil he ever had.

    Maybe he has ADHD, but that’s trivial and irrelevant compared to the rest.

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      Everyone in the deep state knows that Donald Trump isn’t paranoid.

      Those bastards in Canada and the EU have really been out to get him for a long time.

      Just ask the people in Greenland. They’ll tell you about all of the secret military exercises being conducted over their shores.

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      Good points. On the paranoia: is this also not more likely due to narcissistic injury? My impression is that paranoia in context of such personality disorders is more often preemptive and constant rather then reactionary due to his bubble of grandiosity being burst. On the ADHD: either it is part or it isn’t but I disagree that it is trivial. We’re trying to make sense of this cheese brain and it should help us (voting world population) to better understand the tendency of self-absorbed people, like he, getting positions of power aiding our democratical collapse.

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        I see no signs of ADHD, and if there are any, they are very minor, so yes that is absolutely a minor concern compared to him being a raving malignant narcissist.
        If you see Trump speeches from 40 years ago, it is very evident that he does NOT have ADHD, back then he was perfectly coherent and could stay on track for hours. People with ADHD cannot do that.

        The fact that he can’t do it now, doesn’t mean he has ADHD it means he has dementia.

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          back then he was perfectly coherent

          People with ADHD can speak perfectly coherently. ADHD is an issue with attention and focus, not with language.

          and could stay on track for hours

          How could you possibly know that? Were you physically there with him at the time, critically assessing his performance? I thought you were dead, Epstein.

          People with ADHD cannot do that.

          You have no idea what you’re talking about. They very much can.

          doesn’t mean he has ADHD it means he has dementia

          Anyone who can’t distinguish those two conditions is more than a few marbles short. They’re nothing alike.

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            People with ADHD can speak perfectly coherently.

            No they can’t for more than an hour.

            ADHD is an issue with attention and focus, not with language.

            And then you said it yourself.