Strange, I also get plagued with people all trying the same crap on me. In my case it's poeple I barely know trying to me convince I'm really ignorant and helpless and need their advice and protection.

Because I often get the same tesponse from virutal strangers, I keep wondering if people like me and @Fuzzybear are doing something that cues people to treat us badly.

But I never ask these people for help or comfide my problems to them, so I assume their behavior comes from some internal need of their own.

Do you mind sharing what abusers do and say? I often examine my own interactions to try to figure out if something is triggering undesirable behaviors or if I am inadvertantly looking weak and vulnerable.