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He has little chance of being an effective debater; or as Ojeda said, “He’ll get stomped like a Narc at a biker rally.”

Reddit’s narcissism forums abound with advice for dealing with narcs, but a lot of it boils down to two strategies: Stay away from the narc if you can; if you can’t, try your best to avoid engaging with the narc.

But sometimes getting away is impossible—if you have a narc co-worker, say.

The idea here is to make yourself as uninteresting to the narc as a pebble on the sidewalk: Avoid conversations or try to steer them to the blandest subjects; pretend you’ve got something else to do or are engrossed in a book or TV show; generally deny them the chance to dictate your actions.

The woman explains that it took going to therapy—for her, not the narc —to understand the complete one-sidedness of the friendship.