As someone who has been extensively gaslighted in real life and by some posters here sometimes I would like to make a comment about posters advising Glinner to back off of twitter. Also about TRAs posting screenshots of these advisory posts.
When I started to post about Aristasia I got exactly the same treatment from some posters. People claiming that I wasn’t well and the I needed help from mental health professionals. Thankfully some very kind posters stepped in and were supportive, which meant a lot to me and I would like to do the same for Glinner now
I do not know Graham / Glinner personally. I just do not have time to follow Glinner’s or other people’s social media accounts, no matter how much I might appreciate them. I do not expect perfection from myself or from anyone else. While I have very much appreciated many GC battles Glinner has fought, he may very well have said somethings sometime I do not agree with or find offensive. He might not, but if he has I can accept that I do not need to agree with everything a person says or does in order to be an ally with them in the battles that count.
One thing that Glinner said really rang true for me re gaslighting. It was along the lines that the truth of the situation is so terrible, so bizarre and so incredible that if you try to explain the situation to other people they just assume you must be insane. "Welcome to my world," was what I thought at the time.
I recently viewed a video by a doctor working on the front line with covid patients in the US. The doctor is a hero. His name is Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell.
I have watched all the videos on his youtube channel and one of the things I noticed was that he has lost weight and appeared scruffier and sleep deprived as his videos are uploaded. This is unsurprising of course. A doctor working on the front line works and sleeps and doesn’t have much time to eat, sleep or attend to personal grooming.
Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell is clearly a highly intelligent and articulate man, but he is also sleep deprived and putting the battle against covid ahead of his personal needs.
I would like to draw the attention of readers to this video of Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell
In the video he appears sleep deprived and unshaven. He talks very quickly and in a manner that could be misinterpreted as something called “pressure of speech” - a kind of rapid pattern of speech associated with certain serious types of mental illness.
Of course the doctor is not mentally ill. He is tired and attempting to convey a large amount of detailed information as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The doctor also rapidly shifts between different tangential subjects. This could be misdiagnosed as something called “flight of ideas”, another way of communicating that is considered to be indicative of serious mental illness. Of course the doctor is not mentally ill.. Hie is a highly intelligent man, working flat out and attempting to convey important, complex, tangential issues as quickly and efficiently as possible.
If Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell reads my post I hope he will forgive me for making use of his video to illustrate an important point.
My point is that brave, determined, caring people who step up to the plate and fight battles that others are either too frighted to to fight or lack the skills and abilities to fight, can easily end up tired, end up looking dishevelled, and end up talking quickly and tangentially linking complex issues beyonnd the ken of others.
Sometimes people sound mad because they are mad, but when the world has gone mad and the masses are complying with cult like activities and behaviours it is the sane people, the true fighters, who can end up looking mad to the masses.
So more power to you Graham
All the best, take a break if you would like to, not because you are mad, you are not, you are a valuable sane voice in a sea of insanity. Take a rest, when the time is right, because you deserve it and nobody has infinitely broad shoulders.
Until that time you just keep on doing what you're doing. You are very much appreciated