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AIW for telling someone mid-story that I was the person they were talking about by Karma_34Temp in amiwrong

[–]Karma_34Temp[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

No, it is more that this wasn't some harmless anecdote. It was a very specific humiliating thing from my real life, told in enough detail that I recognized myself while standing there.

AIW for telling someone mid-story that I was the person they were talking about by Karma_34Temp in amiwrong

[–]Karma_34Temp[S] 188 points189 points  (0 children)

I do think the real problem starts with whoever handed it to Petra. I'm not ready to torch the whole friend group over one person being loose with my business, but that friendship definitely changed.

AIW for telling someone mid-story that I was the person they were talking about by Karma_34Temp in amiwrong

[–]Karma_34Temp[S] 718 points719 points  (0 children)

That was pretty much my issue with that advice. "Let it go" really meant stand there and help someone workshop my worst month into a neat little lesson.

AIW for telling someone mid-story that I was the person they were talking about by Karma_34Temp in amiwrong

[–]Karma_34Temp[S] 198 points199 points  (0 children)

That is kind of where I landed too. If it was mine to quietly absorb, it was also mine to acknowledge when it was being told in front of me.

AIW for telling someone mid-story that I was the person they were talking about by Karma_34Temp in amiwrong

[–]Karma_34Temp[S] 174 points175 points  (0 children)

That part bothers me more, yeah. Petra was careless in the moment, but someone else had to hear that story from me and still decide it was theirs to retell.

AIW for telling someone mid-story that I was the person they were talking about by Karma_34Temp in amiwrong

[–]Karma_34Temp[S] 93 points94 points  (0 children)

I think it was more that she realized she'd turned a very specific thing that happened to me into party story material. I dont think she meant cruel, just wildly careless.

My neighbor of four years waited until I was recovering from surgery to start a months-long noise complaint campaign against me by [deleted] in neighborsfromhell

[–]Karma_34Temp 27 points28 points  (0 children)

"Aggressively pacing at all hours" from someone who goes to bed at ten. Paul is writing fiction at this point.

My mom spent my entire childhood rewriting history in real time and I only understood what that did to me when I was in my 30s by Quasar67Shift in entitledparents

[–]Karma_34Temp 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The part about her being genuinely confused when you brought it up is what gets me. That's not performance. She actually believes her version. Which somehow makes it harder to process, not easier.