Diagnosed narcissist says there is single question to ask someone to see if they have the condition

A diagnosed narcissist reckons he knows one question you should ask someone if you suspect them of being a narcissist.

Jacob Skidmore has been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and since then he's been making videos telling people about the condition and what the world looks like from his perspective.

Going by The Nameless Narcissist, even though we have just told you his name, Jacob once told LADbible he used to keep his diagnosis under wraps, saying: "Nowadays I’m (obviously) very open about my condition but, since I was aware of the opinion most people had about it, I didn’t tell anyone for around two years."

"I know some people with NPD that have gone decades without disclosing it out of fear of judgement. That’s the issue with having such a shame driven disorder.

"It’s hard to tell anyone something that you think they’ll judge you for."

As for this question you must ask someone if you want to find out whether they have NPD, Jacob explained on TikTok he'd got it from another diagnosed narcissist and he thought the answer he had was 'so objectively true to me'.

He said: "Ask them: 'Don't you think that there are just objectively better and worse people in the world, and people who are superior and inferior and the rest of the world just wants to ignore that?'"

Apparently if you ask this question or some variation on it and they answer in the affirmative then it's a good sign that person you're talking to is a narcissist.

They might also hold some rather extreme views if they're really into the notion of 'superior and inferior' people, so it's worth checking exactly what they mean by it.

Nevertheless, Jacob says this is the question you want to be asking to clue you in on whether you're talking to a narcissist.

Jacob reckons there are ways you can further refine the question, as he mentioned it was 'even better if you add something implying that you and that person are both part of the like upper echelons'.

"Narcissists view the world through that lens, through the ideas that there are people who have more inherent self-worth and some people who have less self-worth, people who are better than other people and people who are worse," he explained.

"That is a central core belief that drives their actions.

"And it is why constantly they're trying to prove that they are part of the better people because, deep down, they think they're part of the worst people."