[Content Warning: discussion of abuse] “Gaslighting” is a term I see a lot these days. When I first learned about it in high school I became obsessed with it because of how often I saw it, most especially in people attributing feelings and drives in me that I saw no evidence of. Every time I would pose my doubt to people purporting to explain my actions or feelings, they would retort that I hadn’t introspected deeply enough, hadn’t seen the data, etc. A lot of them were clearly wrong in retrospect, but some of them I now think were rightr. The question seems to be: How could you possibly know you’re being gaslit?
Can you really know you’re being gaslit?
Can you really know you’re being gaslit?
Can you really know you’re being gaslit?
[Content Warning: discussion of abuse] “Gaslighting” is a term I see a lot these days. When I first learned about it in high school I became obsessed with it because of how often I saw it, most especially in people attributing feelings and drives in me that I saw no evidence of. Every time I would pose my doubt to people purporting to explain my actions or feelings, they would retort that I hadn’t introspected deeply enough, hadn’t seen the data, etc. A lot of them were clearly wrong in retrospect, but some of them I now think were rightr. The question seems to be: How could you possibly know you’re being gaslit?