Symptom Guide: 00:00 Introduction 02:01 Love Bombing 04:10 Time Blindness 06:56 Manipulation 08:42 Emotional Outbursts 12:36 Empathy 17:42 Reading Social/Emotional/Physical Cues 22:38 Outro Is it ADHD or is it Narcissism? Let’s compare and contrast the symptoms between the two disorders. ADHD - Love Bombs - Their expression of genuine enthusiasm over a new person, experience, etc. This is more like showering your new love with, well, love. NARCISSISM - Love Bombs - A tactic used to gain their victim's trust and loyalty ADHD - Time blindness - genuine inability to not be on time or perform activities or requests within a certain timeline. NARCISSISM - Time blindness - Intentional disregard for other people's time. Especially as it pertains to an activity or request they do not care about. ADHD - On being a narcissist - Genuinely concerned at the possibility, actively works to ensure they are not exemplifying traits. NARCISSISM - On being a narcissist - When confronted, they deny, shame, and/or accuse the person confronting them of being the narcissist. ADHD - Is easily manipulated by others due to their inability to understand empathy, emotions, and physical cues. NARCISSISM - Manipulates others through gaslighting, victimizing themselves, mentally weakening others, and destablizing their vicitms. ADHD - On emotional outbursts - ADHDers experience overstimulation and overwhelm in many situations. Their brain causes their anger, rage, or emotional outburst being overloaded and unable to function in the current situation. NARCISSISM - On emotional outbursts - Narcissists express rage, anger, physical/emotional/mental abuse upon someone's refusal, denial, or unwillingness. These outbursts are also caused by the narcissists' loss of control or power over their victim. ADHD - On empathy - ADHDers are highly sensitive people who can experience a struggle to express empathy regularly, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t empathetic. NARCISSISM - On empathy - Narcissists are often believed to lack empathy, and this is a myth. Narcissists and empathy is more nuanced than is ever discussed. ADHD - On reading emotional/physical cues - Some children, adolescents, and adults with ADHD can't read others' social cues, and don't perceive how their body language and tone of voice are read by others. Communicating with friends involves more than words. NARCISSISM - On reading emotional/physical cues - Narcissists are proud of their ability to “read minds” but it's impossible. The only ability they have is to step out of their self-centered aura just long enough to learn enough information about others to exploit and use against them in the future. So basically, the narcissist read others’ cues in order to understand how to manipulate a person into performing the act the narcissist wants. Sources: National Library of Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5973978/ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brooke-Hallowell/publication/280389702_Where_Children_With_ADHD_Direct_Visual_Attention_During_Emotion_Knowledge_Tasks_Relationships_to_Accuracy_Response_Time_and_ADHD_Symptoms/links/564bf58308aeab8ed5e79a05/Where-Children-With-ADHD-Direct-Visual-Attention-During-Emotion-Knowledge-Tasks-Relationships-to-Accuracy-Response-Time-and-ADHD-Symptoms.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349280/ Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/202001/do-narcissists-actually-lack-empathy https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/communication-success/202007/8-signs-narcissistic-communicator https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beautiful-minds/201202/are-narcissists-better-reading-minds PsyPost https://www.psypost.org/2017/01/narcissists-overestimate-emotional-intelligence-attractiveness-social-skills-46785 Healthline https://www.healthline.com/health/love-bombing ADDitude Magazine https://www.additudemag.com/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-and-adhd/#:~:text=Rejection%20sensitive%20dysphoria%20(RSD)%20is,high%20standards%20or%20others'%20expectations https://www.additudemag.com/social-skills-help-adult-adhd/ https://www.additudemag.com/love-bombing-adhd-hyperfocus/ Psych Central https://psychcentral.com/disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder-love-bombing https://psychcentral.com/lib/love-bombing-as-a-narcissistic-attachment-style#1 https://psychcentral.com/disorders/narcissistic-projection https://psychcentral.com/blog/liberation/2018/07/how-the-narcissist-hurts-you-using-cognitive-empathy Edge Foundation https://edgefoundation.org/adhd-relationship-cycles/ Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10791616_Reading_Emotion_Cues_Social_Communication_Difficulties_in_Pediatric_Populations