I think one way to distinguish gaslighting from healthy self-doubt is to see if your position was heard and validly challenged, or if your views and experiences were simply dismissed because shut up that's why. In the former case you could be having a reasonable intellectual course correction such as we all need in order to learn new things. In the latter case it's much likelier to be social pressure building up to turn you against yourself in a form of (probably unconscious) societal abuse. I suspect your hunch is correct and the latter is true in this case.
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Date: 2014-03-24 04:48 am (UTC)