This is so strange I hope someone can help me make sense of it. My eldest child lost it in late teens, became violent and abusive, etc and after a few years, well into adulthood, I had to ask them to leave. Before the mid-teens, we had a very good and close relationship. But after they left, they started talking to people who didn't know me well, and telling my life story as theirs. I grew up very poor, neglected, abused, etc. And they grew up w Disneyland, everything they needed, and a lot they wanted, lots of love and support, etc. But they tell everyone they grew up dirt poor, barefoot, neglected, abused, etc.
Upsets me that they tell everyone I'm a bad parent, but weirds me out that they are basically stealing my childhood and telling people it was theirs. I assume for sympathy and attention but still. It's weird.