1. To Gaslight You.
Most times, in my opinion, they do it out of an overall necessity to have it as a backup to gaslight you. Many times narcissists will use word salad for conversations that don’t even matter, where it would not be necessary for them to manipulate anything necessarily, but they like to utilize word salad whenever they can because they can gaslight you. The name of the game for the narcissist is to escape accountability for anything they have done or might do and to control and manipulate your perceptions and beliefs about yourself.
And using the word salad accomplishes both of these goals because they can blame your interpretation of what they said as the reason you didn’t have the correct information. Wasn’t their fault, it’s your fault. You heard them wrong. If you would just listen carefully, you just never listen. Or the one they always use: Boy, you sure are getting things confused anymore, your memory is really failing you. Something is wrong with you, not with them.
Over time, you begin to doubt your own perceptions and memories about what actually was said, and because you become more and more dependent on them to interpret what actually happened, which is always a goal of a narcissist. They want complete control over their victims.
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