Good morning! Let's talk about gaslighting! Gaslighting, one of the most psychologically damaging types of harassment, is when serial abusers present false information or a false narrative to make you doubt your own memory, perceptions, sanity, or professional knowledge.
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…to the president gaslighting the nation on basically everything.https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/14/trumps-gaslighting-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/ …
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Gaslighting is when a serial harasser shows up at your panel with a mob of angry men with the goal of intimidation and then proceeds to tell you and everyone else who will listen that *you* harassed them.https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/6/27/15880582/anita-sarkeesian-garbage-human-vidcon-interview …
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Gaslighting is such a constant in my life that whenever I tweet about my own experiences (especially wrt harassment), my mentions are inundated with posts that are purposely meant to make me doubt my motives and especially my own lived reality.
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And it works. I have to regularly check in with my team to be reassured and to check my own sanity because a gaslighter’s goal is to make the target confused and create feelings of self-doubt and uncertainty about their own reality.
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Fuck gaslighting. You aren't crazy.
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can you please give us dictionary-esque definition of gaslighting. All these different examples and anecdotes you're giving me are making me more confused not less. Genuinely curious. Even though I'm a millenial I have the vocabulary of your grandparents.
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let me help you anything she does not like
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that's not helpful. I was being serious. I genuinely don't understand what gaslighting is and I speak 4 languages
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