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She seems to have no awareness that other people even have feelings. She'll occasionally
slip and say something jaw-droppingly callous because of this lack of empathy. It isn't
that she doesn't care at all about other people's feelings, though she doesn't. It would simply
never occur to her to think about their feelings. An absence of empathy is the defining trait
of a narcissist and underlies most of the other traits I have described. Unlike psychopaths,
narcissists do understand right, wrong, and consequences, so they are not ordinarily criminal.
She beat you, but not to the point where you went to the hospital. She left you standing
out in the cold until you were miserable, but not until you had hypothermia. She put
you in the basement in the dark with no clothes on, but she only left you there for two hours.