The troll usually responds to your posts to disagree, antagonize, and/or draw you into a public debate.
Most people who post about their personal experiences dealing with narcissistic abuse are not about drama, and that is me. I am not about drama. I most often discern when I am dealing with a narcissistic troll based on how they choose to respond to my posts.
Although this is not always the case, the troll might tag other people on a specific post and then each of those tagged, including the troll, will make disparaging comments on the post. I see this as antagonizing behavior because if a person does not agree with my post or my experiences, it is far better to simply scroll past and move on to someone else.
My posts are for the people who connect and relate to what I am saying and understand the experiences. A troll will neither seek to understand or relate. Instead, they react as if they are offended by what they perceive as “all or nothing” posts. That is not my problem, however.
Other times, a troll will disagree with my posts by correcting me about the wording of my posts or telling me how I am wrong about my posts. Frankly, I will take a person’s words into consideration to gain different perspectives. However, oftentimes, when I suspect that the person is coming from a place of disagreement for the sake of disagreement, I simply choose not to engage with them.
If I must engage, I will explain myself and move on. If my explanation draws them into further bantering against me, then I will mute their communication with me. Yet, I am very careful with this because I do not want to miss any lessons that I need to learn because I still have a lot to learn as well.
Yet, when I post about my personal experiences, I often wonder where a troll gets off on bashing me for my experiences when they could have just easily scrolled on by without responding at all. That takes a lot of nerve to attempt to upend someone’s post just because one does not like the post. Despite it being a public forum, trolls have no respect and no decency. They only want to make trouble as if they are righting some wrongs.
Up next, find out how trolls can use your platform to air their grievances against others.
My Voice Unchained 
Narcissists just don’t get any second chances to salvage themselves in this life. They have no purpose in this life, and they couldn’t bring any meaningful content to the table. This post of yours reminds me so much of my grandiose, narcissistic father.
My father never actually treated any of his children with love or developed any sort of close relationship with us, albeit a fake or transactional one. I remember my eldest brother’s decision to call out my father’s act after he treated my malignant, narcissistic mother very poorly on that fateful night. When we sit down and talk about that incident in the next couple of days, my father actually doesn’t understand why my brother would openly insult him that night. Instead, he could only remember every disrespectful sentence or word spewed out by my brother at him.
And now, if you can imagine a 70-year-old man who would throw a tantrum like any 3-year-old child would do when I merely pointed out to him why my brother would act so strangely on that fateful night. After that, he would go on and try to justify all of his actions by first telling all sorts of lies regarding the past life he shared with my mother and my eldest brother, almost like numerous attempts to brainwash me to try to get me on his side of his fabricated story.
I’ll never forget these “valuable” experiences I had with my father, when I never knew where he was for 95% of my entire life.
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