Manipulative behaviour. My four year older sister, for reasons I can only guess, has disliked me pretty much my entire life. She has always been so petty towards me and has been very manipulative in her pettiness towards me.

At a young a I learned to protect myself by shutting myself off from manipulative behaviour. I didn’t know I was so sensitive to manipulators until I was in my mid 30s having a complete mental breakdown due to due the covid lockdowns. It seems like covid broke the manipulator’s minds even more somehow and they all lashed out on everyone else.

After coming to understand more about myself and the manipulators around me, I began helping other people deal with manipulators in their lives. It depresses me that I was basically helping women deal with manipulative men because men refused to listen to me about other manipulative men.

I’m glad I was able to help the people I did help but I really wish I didn’t have to do such a thing.

Most things actually, I’m very curious with a wide range of interests and a decent memory. Only slightly more than the average person for most things, mind you, and I have pretty big blind spots for sports and popular media. Still, I generally round out any trivia team.

Being married to a covert narcissist.

Airplanes, genetics and biochem, computers and IT, and living in a loving relationship

I know more than average about domestic abuse and coercive control. People often don’t realise that coercive control is what cults use to trap people, it’s the same tactics but bigger scale

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