gwyn wrote:lack common sense - I often mistake the meaning of what people say, or mishear it; I've even visually interpreted a picture as being of something it's not.
I wouldn't say I "lack common sense", but I
do completely misinterpret things people say (and then will give them a nonsensical response because I'm talking about something else). I'm also forgetful in the extreme - not just in-one-ear-out-the-other, but also just in daily life things. Never know where my keys are, can't keep track of appointments for crap, put the cereal in the fridge and the milk in the cabinet.
(I don't mean in the sense of that man described in the book, "The man who mistook his wife for a hat.")
Fab book, by the way.
I'm now seen as endearingly dippy and absent minded. So, other narcissists (or 'trait-ers') reading this, are any of you seen as incompetent or dozy/drippy/living in your own universe?
People think I'm a complete blockhead. Or more often, they'll seem me as "so-smart-I'm-dumb", you know, the typical genius that can't tie their shoes sort of thing. Generally they just think I'm a space cadet with no attention span - which is true.
Gwyn, you probably do the same thing I do, which is joke in a self-depreciating manner to mask when you're upset when they insult your intelligence. This probably makes you seem "drippy", especially if you're very feminine, perhaps?