Gaslighting is a systematic pattern of abuse by which the abuser manipulates factual information to give the victim the impression that they cannot trust their own senses. It should not be confused with discounting or minimizing, two very different forms of verbal abuse that are far more common.
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A game where you say something stupid and someone makes a stupider drawing and everyone gives up on life but it’s also funny as hell
Person 1: I played gartic phone with my friends and they drew a lot of cursed backyardigains stuff
Person 2: oh god
Person 2: oh god
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Get the Gaptized mug.(noun) The opposite of gaslighting. Gasdimming involves helping someone to realise that they are perfectly sane, lucid and are worthy of love and affection; particularly if they have recently been the victim of a gaslighter.
I'm so happy that Susannah's new boyfriend is gasdimming her, not like the last dickhead she went out with.
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