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Old Dec 12, 2021, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by mote.of.soul View Post
Yeah, I agree with nonightowl: they don't know what they're talking about really. If they had no response then, no, I wouldn't worry @StephenT. Sounds like they're doing it for 'fun' - which for me, if/when that happens, I never get the joke or why they'd even bother in the first place.

'Gaslighting' is basically when someone knowingly tries to make you think you're 'mad' or doing/saying something inappropriate when you're actually not. It can be confusing and annoying.
And if this is their idea of "fun", what psychos they are.

I think the term comes from the old 1940's movie called Gaslight, where the husband tried to drive his wife insane or convince her she was, when she wasn't. Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Or maybe the term predates the movie; I never looked it up.
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