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Family Thanksgiving gathering

Love you man!

I never had to deal with the kinds of things you describe, it sounds terrible. I'm sorry you had to go through all that. I get the feeling that what you have described is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think I would avoid the whole scene. It sounds icky. Probably too late to get a room somewhere for a few days, but you could try. Helping people on Thanksgiving sounds really awesome.

You are an inspiration to us all, thank you for sharing about your life. You are employed, self supporting, living independently and living a good life. It can be really difficult to recognize that relatives are small and shriveled inside, mean and broken. The people that used to hurt you may want to hurt you again, my abusers did. I kept on allowing abusive people back in to my life. Like somehow it would all change if only I could change my behavior, but I was wrong.

Anyways I had several Thanksgiving meals on the road, one as a homeless man, a few in a restaurant, and the best times by far as a guest in other people's homes, friends of mine.

Thank you for being you, and for sharing about your life, you may not know it, but your courage has already touched people's lives. Got something for you to learn about, it's an easy find here's the path

"This momentous day", sermon, dean koontz. It's up on my wow wall
Koontz included it in a novel, its supposedly from a speech from fity fears ago
 
I just decided I also am going to spend Christmas Day feeding the homeless, as well.

My mother is a massive liar and gaslighter, and I do not need to be around people who can lie to me with a straight face and no regrets about it whatsoever.
 
I just decided I also am going to spend Christmas Day feeding the homeless, as well.

My mother is a massive liar and gaslighter, and I do not need to be around people who can lie to me with a straight face and no regrets about it whatsoever.
Good idea. Have the same problem. Just stopped spending time with family over the festive season all together.
 
Well, I have my Christmas plans scheduled now. Charity work helping out people less advantaged than I am, and no time for the blood family narcissist circle jerk. I regret nothing about this.
 
Y’know, I think my mother seriously wants me to get extremely angry with her. That is why she is always telling me such blatant lies and always using such blatant gaslighting tactics with me. She wants me to speak of her as my enemy so she can play the card of how much she loves her lovably retarded son who is victimizing her with such cruelty. The only way to win this game is not to bother playing.
 
Y’know, I think my mother seriously wants me to get extremely angry with her. That is why she is always telling me such blatant lies and always using such blatant gaslighting tactics with me. She wants me to speak of her as my enemy so she can play the card of how much she loves her lovably retarded son who is victimizing her with such cruelty. The only way to win this game is not to bother playing.

Yep.

Personally, I would cut ties. She WILL badmouth you and play the victim when you do, but she'll be unable to affect your life by doing so and you'll be better for it.
 

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