Good Medium article about gaslighting
https://link.medium.com/PXyHeRekZcb
Lisa Martens:
“They want you to agree with their version of reality, the one that makes them helpless, the one that lets them pretend they didn’t know Trump was dangerous, his supporters racist, some violent. They want you to agree with their version of reality so they can keep acting like they didn’t do anything wrong…that they weren’t slightly complicit.”
“I’m writing this to tell you that if you feel funny, bad, or angry when your relatives or even friends or the news seem to brush this aside — That’s because it’s gaslighting. Your intuition is correct.”
“ This is where we are gaslit. The abuser doesn’t want his actions discussed or talked about, and his flying monkeys are going to follow his lead. So when we bring it up, we are ‘mean’ and ‘dramatic’ and ‘insensitive’ and ‘overly sensitive’ all at once.”
Lisa Martens:
“They want you to agree with their version of reality, the one that makes them helpless, the one that lets them pretend they didn’t know Trump was dangerous, his supporters racist, some violent. They want you to agree with their version of reality so they can keep acting like they didn’t do anything wrong…that they weren’t slightly complicit.”
“I’m writing this to tell you that if you feel funny, bad, or angry when your relatives or even friends or the news seem to brush this aside — That’s because it’s gaslighting. Your intuition is correct.”
“ This is where we are gaslit. The abuser doesn’t want his actions discussed or talked about, and his flying monkeys are going to follow his lead. So when we bring it up, we are ‘mean’ and ‘dramatic’ and ‘insensitive’ and ‘overly sensitive’ all at once.”
