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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I continue to be inordinately enraged by people who keep characterizing Dawn's actions as "narcissistic" or claiming that anyone who "brags" about their kidney donation like Dawn did is a narcissist. I just... fundamentally do not even comprehend that line of thinking.[/quote]

I would feel so differently about that characterization if they’d been criticizing ACTUALLY obnoxious, self-centered social media behavior. Like if Dawn had been building a custom home and posting day by day photos and updates of it with zero awareness of her privilege, I’d totally get why Larson et al were talking about it and making fun of it. I still think in that situation the solution is “mute and ignore.” But at least then I would get WHY people were so angry about it.

But even if you don’t like how she wrote about this on social media, I just don’t see how you can not just let it go since she did actually do an incredibly generous thing.

I had an acquaintance who did a bone marrow donation. I really don’t like this person for reasons unrelated to her donation. But when she was posting all over Facebook about it, I had to acknowledge to myself this was a good thing to do. It didn’t change my opinion of her (you can’t erase your bad deeds with good deeds, that’s not how life works). But I sure as hell didn’t get obsessed with or make fun of her donation posts! And if I had, literally everyone in my life would have called me on it immediately because that’s a bridge too far.[/quote]

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