Narcissists think *you* think you're special if you refuse their agenda.
A Vice Principal in high school said "you're nothing special" to me when I refused to shower after gym class because I was being bullied and for some weird reason didn't want to be naked around guys who were harrassing me behind the coach's back. I dropped out later because I was just done with authoritarian environments where cruelty and indifference were the culture and anyone without a clique was either invisible or a target.
Dropping out led me to meet the most amazing people who were like me, allergic to authoritarian sociopathic crucibles. Almost all my friends are poor, but they're pretty sane and seem to be much happier than anyone under obligation and stress from hierarchical passive-aggressive narcissists.