They turn the story around to make it seem like you are at fault, deflecting attention and blame away from them to make you feel guilty. This type of emotional manipulation is calledgaslighting. ... Gaslighting
Another danger is that it’s hard to walk back a claim of narcissism. Deciding someone is a narcissist will forever alter how you view them. Every word and action will be seen through that lens, encouraging you to fortify your diagnostic impression even if it’s not true. And...
The whisper of the seed; the spark from Desdemona’s eyelash, the whole in his third eye that it had left, Iago’s stench-y smirk, the foul breath of the spider-girl when she laughed at him, and the thousand eyeball dots symphonized until Othello was on his head. He lunged for Iago...
For too many years, I believed I had to play up the “normal” bits of myself to the point where I was practically in denial when it came to my disabilities. I believed that a “good disabled person” had to behave as though her disabilities didn’t exist. If they did exist, they...
Where, you may ask, did I come up with this completely idiosyncratic definition of avarice? Well, when I first started writing this hub, I thought my definition was the standard one. That’s what I understood avarice to mean. The difference between avarice and greed was obvious to me. The...
which were never prescribed due to mom’s manipulative gaslighting behavior toward my brother’s wife, who was a dentist. Since I lookeduglyor look stupid, by the eyes of my elementry to middle school classmates, I had very few, if at all any friends. Yet, in a way I chose to be ...
situation, these updates may then be rolled out in stages, or as part of A/B testing – leading to confusion regarding the features of the product and how to use them, with different users having varied experiences which are not in agreement, which can almost be seen as gaslighting. ...
when staff are being harassed, blaming or straight up disbelieving the victims. They say things publicly that they don’t back up in practice, and they put out statements defaming and gaslighting individuals when they share their stories (as, predictably, Meta did when this book was released)...
Yes, but where are you pulling these memories from? Just right out of the heads of people around you? Did you ask their permission? Is there a reason you needed to do this or were you just curious to see if everyone was appropriately devastated when you collapsed? Right now seems like ...