About Gaslighting - Brought to you by the Arizona Institute Of Advanced Unmedication

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Agran

Agran

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'What grinds my gears is the way people dismiss gaslighting as something that 'doesn't exist' while I know for damn sure it exists. Gaslighting is a major societal issue permeating every facet of our lives. Perhaps you were gaslighted by your significant other, an abusive spouse or someone else. Perhaps you have witnessed instances of microgaslighting such as a store clerk telling you you're five dollars short, that you can't pay with monopoly money. that you can't smoke crack in Mcdondal's bathroom, that 'please don't hurt me I have children' or even 'drop the fucking knife and get on the ground'. In any case such behavior prevents you from achieving your goals, it is indeed a form of control superimposed upon you by others whom seek to stop you from reaching your goals for their own selfish reasons. Don't let it fly. Stop the gaslighting. Don't tell me gaslighting doesn't exist. You're gaslighting me by telling me gaslighting doesn't exist. You sound fucking insane right now.
Anyway,'
 
I don't gaslight. I asslight.

Okay, fine. I gaslight too.
 
Does anyone still use gas lights? I know lanterns are snazzy looking and nothing beats the warm glow of a flame but batteries are easier to lug around than fuel (which is only getting more expensive) and can last a lot longer.
 
There’s no such thing as “gaslighting.” Do you know how crazy you sound when you use these made-up words? I worry about you.
 
Gaslighting is a natural reaction in some people, they do it naturally, i don't really like using the term because it's retarded and mainly used by trannies. But yeah gaslighting is just people lying and deceiving one another, i'd stop using it tho, it's really gay
 
It is pretty funny when normal people gaslight trannies that they are women, when they really are not. No sane person would ever mistake a troon as woman, but gaslighting is fun because the retards will eventually kill themselves.
 
OP, you're wrong, but I know what you're trying to say.

Gaslighting IS NOT lying while you know you're lying. This is how 99% of people use the term and it's incorrect.

Gaslighting is a reference to the movie called Gaslighting, in which the husband knowingly undertook a campaign to have his wife question reality. He did this by moving furniture and other autistic stuff. It's a very specific and odd form of abuse.

Telling someone you didn't cheat on them and then yelling at them about it when you did in fact cheat isn't gaslighting, it's just lying.
 
ZACKIE said:
But yeah gaslighting is just people lying and deceiving one another
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No, it's not. It's specifically lying to a person to make them doubt their own sanity. It's the difference between saying "I didn't break the window" and "The window never existed to begin with". People have just ruined the original definition with their usual inability to understand the subtext of a word.
 
Exorbital Columnations said:
No, it's not. It's specifically lying to a person to make them doubt their own sanity. It's the difference between saying "I didn't break the window" and "The window never existed to begin with". People have just ruined the original definition with their usual inability to understand the subtext of a word.
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or, specifically to the movie that's referenced, "No, I did not turn down the gas lights. They're the same illumination they've always been. You're crazy."
 
Chongqing said:
OP, you're wrong, but I know what you're trying to say.

Gaslighting IS NOT lying while you know you're lying. This is how 99% of people use the term and it's incorrect.

Gaslighting is a reference to the movie called Gaslighting, in which the husband knowingly undertook a campaign to have his wife question reality. He did this by moving furniture and other autistic stuff. It's a very specific and odd form of abuse.

Telling someone you didn't cheat on them and then yelling at them about it when you did in fact cheat isn't gaslighting, it's just lying.
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So why is it a certain subculture that overuses it? Is it just because hipsters love old movies, or is it because to a crazy person, any attempt by someone more sane to argue with them is "gaslighting" from their warped perspective.
 
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Jarolleon said:
So why is it a certain subculture that overuses it? Is it just because hipsters love old movies?
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Honestly, it's very hard to say. For years, it was only licensed clinicians who used this term. A therapist would know what gaslighting is, but that's about it.

Between you and me, I think it's redditors who misused and overused it. Lying to someone is really awful, but it's not abusive. Gaslighting someone is definitely abuse; it will shape someone's emotional well-being for the rest of their life if they fail to address it. I think a lot of people on the internet use the term to say, "not only did he lie, but he knew that he was lying and therefore he abused me; same if he had busted my lip!" People on the internet want to powerlevel and get pitypoints, after all.

Most people who misuse this term will apply it to someone who says, "I wasn't being rude!" If they think you were rude and you know you were rude, they'll call that gaslighting. You just abused them by accidentally communicating in a way they didn't like.

It's totally messed up because people who actually were gaslighted for years get their experiences erased. "Oh, your husband lied to you? Cry me a river!" But that's not what it is.

A huge portion of internet wine-moms know that they're wrong to use this term, but they do it anyway, "because language naturally changes and evolves." I hate it.
 
Jarolleon said:
So why is it a certain subculture that overuses it?
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Because that subculture is legitimately insane, and say insane and untrue things. Its just easier for them to claim "IM BEING GASLIGHTED!!!" than admit they are insane.

The underpinning tactic of gaslighting is convincing the target they are insane, but this doesn't rule out the existence of legitimately insane people.
 
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