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"gaslight" != "trick" You can trick someone without deliberately working to make them doubt their own sanity.
by acuozzo 3y ago
"gaslight" != "trick"
You can trick someone without deliberately working to make them doubt their own sanity.
- jncfhnb 3y agoEhh that’s really the old definition. Nowadays I feel the colloquial definition is simply asserting a narrative you know is false. Emphasis on narrative, not a simple individual factual claim.
- acuozzo 3y agoSo what's the new word for the old definition then? The old definition is clearly emotional abuse, but the new definition does not seem to meet that standard. Is this just another case in which you have to add extra qualifiers as in "I have OCD, but what I mean is real, diagnosed, legitimate OCD rather than whatever the kiddos on Tic Tac say"?