It's really wild watching my parents age. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt cuz they're getting older, but it's as though they literally have been the same people as long as I can remember; still saying the same shit, still putting down their kids in the same way, still the same patterns of gaslighting, like... do narcs never grow up? I'm really struggling to understand this... If anything, their narcness now is completely unhinged - they'll gaslight you in broad daylight - zero filter with anything whatsoever...

Odd.

Help me understand, folks.

Thnx.

It's really wild watching my parents age. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt cuz they're getting older, but it's as though they literally have been the same people as long as I can remember; still saying the same shit, still putting down their kids in the same way, still the same patterns of gaslighting, like... do narcs never grow up? I'm really struggling to understand this... If anything, their narcness now is completely unhinged - they'll gaslight you in broad daylight - zero filter with anything whatsoever...

Odd.

Help me understand, folks.

Thnx.

The process of my parents simultaneously ridiculing me and looking to me for literally everything is starting to really fck with me - especially as they're getting older...

You're still parentifying me and ridiculing me for everything. Like, you never were my parent, and... you still aren't?? You're still my child??

I feel like I've been cheated this entire ride. Like... how am I supposed to make sense of this?

I've always wondered - my dad could be telling me something to save me from sudden death and I swear it would go in one ear and out the other. The only person in my life like that. It's been that way forever. Never did I think till now that his narcness could be connected to this phenomenon...

Anybody have any insight?

Thnx.

This was something I noticed a long while back but recently was hammered home - Literally NOTHING my dad says makes any sense. Like, it's IMPOSSIBLE to have a linear conversation with him. I've tried several times to be like, "No, Dad - We're having a conversation. That means you listen to me and respond, and I listen to you and respond and we have an interaction..." Like, wtf? He literally looks at me bewildered like, "What is this conversation phenomenon you are speaking of??" It's so utterly bizarre - My mom does the same thing, but isn't as bad as my dad. Different kinds of narcs, but very similar. Anyway, I digress...

I've always wondered - my dad could be telling me something to save me from sudden death and I swear it would go in one ear and out the other. The only person in my life like that. It's been that way forever. Never did I think till now that his narcness could be connected to this phenomenon...

Anybody have any insight?

Thnx.