Ryan Daigler
ryandaigler.bsky.social
Ryan Daigler
@ryandaigler.bsky.social
Survivor of 2 covertly malignant narcissist parents and attempted filicide. Raising awareness about their manipulation tactics because I’ve seen it all.
INFJ, cat dad, music saved me, CPTSD is a bitch but we cope, tryna live my best life
Covert narcissists feel incredibly threatened by honest people with strong intuitive insight and and unwavering commitment to honesty.
Being around someone who "sees" them — not the mask, but the real, insecure, manipulative self beneath — is intolerable to a covert narcissist.
July 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Intuitive truth tellers are the biggest threat to covert and malignant #narcissists.
Narcissists instinctively attack these people, aiming to smear their reputation in order to protect the false reality the narcissists depend on.
March 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A #narcissist craves obedience and control, but they don’t actually respect those who give it to them. In their mind, if someone submits to them, it just confirms their own superiority and the other person’s inferiority. They see obedience as a sign of weakness, not loyalty or worthiness.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The malignant narcissist will tell you they’re trying to help you while they actively do things to make things harder for you.

Actions speak loudest.
March 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Malignant narcissist vilify their victims to cover up the fact that they were actually the ones abusing the sh*t out of them the entire time
February 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Narcissists feel deep contempt for genuinely good people and good-will because true kindness exposes their own lack of humanity. This resentment causes them to want to discredit genuinely good intentions and people,
Cont.
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#Narcissists work hard to keep a pristine public image so they can get away with being abusive in private
February 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A #narcissist craves obedience and control, but they don’t actually respect those who give it to them. In their mind, if someone submits to them, it just confirms their own superiority and the other person’s inferiority. They see obedience as a sign of weakness, not loyalty or worthiness.
Cont…
February 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The malignant narcissist family members are so terrified of allowing their own inner dysfunction to be made public that they will sacrifice one of their emotionally functional children or siblings to bury that secret. This is the scapegoat.
Cont
February 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
When narcissists see someone with qualities they lack—like empathy, authenticity, and inner happiness —they experience intense resentment. But admitting to themselves or others that they hate you for being a good person would expose their own inadequacy.
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February 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I wonder how many Albert Einstein‘s and Mary Curie‘s the world will never be aware of because their lives were shattered by envious malignant narcissist parents…
February 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The narcissist wants to define you. To make you into someone you’re not. To erase you.

Please don’t give them the satisfaction
February 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#Narcissistic abusers often torment their victims behind closed doors while presenting a charming and innocent facade in public. They strategically provoke their victims, subtly pushing them to the brink when others are present, causing the victim to react visibly.
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February 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Dear narcissist parents, I’m so sorry I foiled your plans and survived to talk about your abuse. I must be a real disappointment for you.
February 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
When you’re the scapegoat of a toxic narcissistic family, you’re the one being bullied by the rest of the family, and you’re the one accused of being the bully. It’s insane.
January 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#Narcissists don’t just give you a hard time, they sincerely want to damage your self-esteem. They want you to doubt yourself. But the covert #narcissist will earn your trust first in order to do this more effectively.
January 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Covert #narcissists really are the most devastating and manipulative because you just don’t see what they are.
They invest so much into pretending to be your friend and someone you can trust but the whole time they are just analyzing and contemplating…
January 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The #narcissist will make it sound like they’ve done so much for you, but if you really think about it and look at what they’ve done, you’ll see they’ve done as little as they could get away with, at best.
December 30, 2024 at 5:28 PM
The abuse didn’t make you strong. You were already strong.
December 24, 2024 at 6:09 PM
In a toxic narcissistic family, the #narcissists of the family gang up on the scapegoat and make the scapegoat out to be the problem to witnesses for a number of reasons, but ultimately it’s to cover up their own guilt for the way they abuse the scapegoat.
December 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Malignant #narcissists get intensely threatened by genuinely honest, intelligent, moralistic people to the point of anger and hatred and the only way for them to relieve those feelings is by sabotaging and smear campaigning those genuinely good people.
Cont
December 14, 2024 at 2:47 PM
#Narcissists will abuse their victims to the breaking point, and then act like they’re the ones “trying to get away” from their victim.
December 8, 2024 at 8:26 PM
I’m really tired of the honest people being held to a higher standard than the dishonest malignant narcissists who seemed to be allowed just get away with anything.
December 3, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Being abused and traumatized by narcissistic abuser doesn’t make the victim ”weak”.
It just shows how monstrous and abusive the abusers are.

Some of the very strongest people have had mental collapses because of years of psychological abuse. It has nothing to do with them being weak, …
November 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Narcissist parents can be overtly abusive but they can also be very subtly abusive. Without directly saying sbusive or demeaning things to their children, they can insinuate these things clearly enough with facial expressions and tone of voice.
November 17, 2024 at 3:50 PM