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Ryan Daigler

@ryandaigler.bsky.social
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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

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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
• Feeling trapped or unable to leave a situation • Crowded or chaotic environments • Anniversaries, holidays, or birthdays • Confrontation of any kind • Having their memory questioned • Seeing their abuser’s name or face, or hearing their voice • Anything that reminds them of their abuser
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Survivors of narcissistic abuse are often triggered by: • Yelling, screaming, or someone raising their voice — even without malice • Sudden silence or someone going cold • Someone’s mood shifting without explanation • Feeling watched, monitored, or scrutinized Cont.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Shaming a person for responding to abuse with anger while ignoring what the abuser did to provoke them is next-level victim-blaming and gaslighting.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thanks!
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Never disrespect your gut instinct. You are not paranoid. Your body can pick up on bad vibrations. If something deep inside of you says something is not right about a person or situation, trust it.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Narcissists always have a scapegoat
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
It brings up shame they try desperately to avoid. Instead of self-reflecting, they project, blame, or smear the honest person to undermine their credibility.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🎯
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
projecting their own manipulative nature onto them, often accusing them of “virtue signaling” or “being manipulative”. This allows them to discredit goodness, maintain control, and distort reality to avoid confronting their own emptiness.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#Narcissists work hard to keep a pristine public image so they can get away with being abusive in private
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hey Lenore! ✌️ glad to see you
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ultimately, a narcissist’s "respect" is just a reflection of power dynamics, not genuine admiration or appreciation. No matter what you do—whether you obey or resist—you can never truly earn their real respect, because they don’t see others as equals in the first place.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
At the same time, if someone resists them, they may develop a grudging respect—but not in a healthy way. They might view that person as a challenge, an obstacle, or even a rival. Instead of respecting them as an equal, they’ll often seek to break them down, manipulate them, or regain control. Cont
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Narcissist always need a scapegoat to blame their problems on. And they will often use others’ accomplishments to take credit for
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
That makes sense. Just beginning to show independence so they want to control that. Such disgusting behavior. I wouldn’t stand for that either
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
that only serves to make the victim look “crazy“ because the rest of society really isn’t prepared to understand that there are people like this all around us doing this to their own children and the people they are friends with are doing this to their own siblings
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
And this is when narcissism becomes a malignant evil conspiracy of terror for one (or sometimes more) family members.It literally feels like a nuclear satanic cult complete with a ritual human sacrifice. And if you express such fear or concern that “my family is trying to kill me“ …cont
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
They need a justification for their hatred that keeps their fragile self-image intact while also manipulating others into siding with them. It’s not you, it’s them.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So instead, they manufacture a narrative that paints you as the problem. They’ll twist reality to make you seem like the abuser, manipulator, or other negative qualities they know people will easily accept without looking deeper. Cont…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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. Cont…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The narcissist wants to define you. To make you into someone you’re not. To erase you. Please don’t give them the satisfaction
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thank you! 💛
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes 💪🏼
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This calculated behavior aims to make the victim appear as if they are overreacting or unstable to those observing the situation. #ReactiveAbuse
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#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. Cont…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I hope you find some joy. I know it’s hard.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Whoops, not sorry
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Don’t be disappointed in yourself. You survived a very difficult upbringing.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
#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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
and figuring out what the best responses to manipulate you are going to be. And you might really think they are your best friend. And that’s what makes it so devastating if not impossible to see through it. The covert #narcissist really is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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…
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The abuse didn’t make you strong. You were already strong.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Thanks! Same to you.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
People ignore the abuse that they see with their own eyes if they think it’s happening in response to a “problematic child”. This is why isolation becomes another tactic in this abusive dynamic, in order to restrict the scapegoat child from telling anyone the truth.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The narcissist is afraid of exposure and they won’t hesitate to destroy the genuinely good person to protect their facade.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Why? The narcissist PRETENDS to be good or kind or moralistic. It is all completely a show to manipulate people. They’re afraid the genuinely good and honest person will threaten to expose the narcissist’s disingenuous nature by comparison.
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Ryan Daigler @ryandaigler.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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
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