They lack many adult skills and tend to rely on people around them to make up for these deficiencies. That people will obey and comply is taken for granted and as a birth right of the narcissist. At times the narcidssist socially isolates himself, exuding an air of superiority and expressing disdain or adopting patronising attitudes. At times he verbally lashes those closest to him. Yet the narcissist forever and under all circumstances expects total allegiance, loyalty, and submissiveness.
Abuse has many forms.
Expropriating someone's childhood in favour of adult pursuits is one of the subtlest varieties of soul murder. The narcissist was never was a child. The Narcissist constantly clashed with figures of authority because he feels entitled to special treatment, immune to prosecution and superior. The Narcissist refuses to grow up. In his mind, his tender age was an integral part of the precocious miracle that he became.