Absolutely this. I didn't quite understand the power of putting the person you're talking to into an authoritative character until people started doing it to me in the last few years and it was extremely startling and humbling.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1241244061513572352 …
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In a sense it’s not ~entiiirely~ within you
it’s almost the polite thing to do, to play along with the game they’re setting up. But it can also be enabling them in unhealthy patterns of thought -
Well, yes. They're assuming a character and the "way to engage" with that character is to become its foil, or something. It's just, I didn't know the ability to become a character so 'mean' was inside me; if you'd asked me before I would have sworn it'd never happen to me
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Good example of non-coercive but genuine power!
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Would you prefer I not refer to you as "her royal tweeting excellency, Madame Aella!"...???
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