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She said No she said, they said

We are having the weirdest experience with a outside friend of Tieas.
She'll often start a quetion with Tiea with "So where do YOU want to go"? Tiea will typicaly wait a second or two and listen to us to see if we have a special place in mindwere all rooting for and answer the friend.
Allot of times the friend will say "we' disagreed and "came out and said something differnt", if its not a place the friend wants to go to, or like a movieshe wants to see, the friend will blame it on "us " and say "well all your little people couldet decide so were not going anywhere" If she's driving.

Or Tiea will end up some place she did not want to be and the frind will say "So and so said No" This is so NOT true and Tiea is catching on . We first off dont like being called "the little people" But to end up at a movie or club none of us wanted to go to and have it blamed on s is bothersome.

Has anyone had something like this happen? Were not sure weather one of us should say something( seperatly) to her(the friend)or wait for Tiea to say "No I was here and nobody switched at all" I dont think I'm explaining this well. But this outside friend will blame "us " "the little people inside "She even has called us "the munckins" Tiea just hung up the phone on her .
Peace Shelby

[identity profile] 3libras.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a real bitch. I say ditch her.

-Bellona

[identity profile] 3libras.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
She's taking advantage of Tiea. That's not the hallmark of a good friend. Tiea should either sit this girl down and talk to her or ditch her. No one needs "friends" like that.

-Bellona.

[identity profile] fayanora.livejournal.com 2005-11-23 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
With friends like that...

[identity profile] robyn-knight.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
i agree with you. ditch the bitch. ha ha

[identity profile] eosphorus.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
what rudeness. if a friend treated me and mine with such an utter lack of respect, she would not remain a friend for very long.

[identity profile] redrainstorm.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't had that happen. I wouldn't put up with it very long if it did.

[identity profile] redrainstorm.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
She needs to before it gets really bad. I read that this is Tiea's only outside friend from above, but is she really a friend if she's doing this? Is she really able to talk to her about you guys if she's reacting this?

[identity profile] redrainstorm.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
She should know that - but she's still "fiddling with your heads". That, again, is not a sign of a true friend. And, I would confront the problem before it gets to be a bigger one.

[identity profile] redrainstorm.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, but do you really have a "tracer"?
The best thing would just be honesty (and having a tracer may be honest I'm not sure). I would just tell her straightly that doing what she's doing is very offensive and rude and mean. Otherwise she'll take it as her behavior and treatment was ok, and it wasn't.

[identity profile] ksol1460.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Nothin' wrong with moxie -- it means energy, kick-ass.

Even if you don't have a tracer or a common memory pool or narrative thread, we have always believed that it is possible for groups who don't have one to create one. Not sure how one would go about doing that but maybe one of the groups on this community who has done it could explain it.

As far as your "friend", level with her, tell her you don't like being gaslighted. She talks as if she doesn't believe anybody's real but Tiea. She must take your word for it as far as Tiea being able to give an honest answer after polling the group, and that she is not blacking out. If she can't handle you being plural, she is not worth your&'s while. You& don't need friends who take advantage of you& in that fashion.

[identity profile] eridanusus.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's hear it for moxie!!!

manipulation isn't friendly

[identity profile] drakul-apollyon.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Keeping in mind that I just woke up, I would have to say that I agree with pretty much every one else who has posted. You do not need a friend who keeps messing with your head, and manipulating or trying to manipulate you. I can understand being worried about loosing one of a small number of outside friends. But if she is willing to use the other people in your system as excuses as to why you should do X-thing, that's quite disrespect in a number of ways. We have a very, very small amount of people that are truly friends but all the same prefer that over having a large amount that we might not be able to trust. Any way's, we wish you luck with dealing with this friend of yours.

Apollyon

[identity profile] luwana.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell her to stop lying in order to manipulate you.

If she refuses to stop this pathetic behaviour, I agree with ditching her. She's abusing her knowledge, and being a completely shit 'friend'.

[identity profile] luwana.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
PS, the name thing is shit. I suggest you make a name for yourself as a group so she can stop using patronising crap.

The joy of having an all adult system is that nobody can use patronising kiddy names. Let me tell you, if anybody did, there's several of us, me included, who'd be reacting in distinctly unpleasant manners.

Re: We told her

[identity profile] spookshow-girl.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Kathy's right, if normal means lying manipulative bitches. *grinz*

Good show.

--Me

Re: We told her

[identity profile] spookshow-girl.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I was talking about Kathy. You might be being a bit oversensitive here.

--Me
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Re: We told her

[identity profile] ksol1460.livejournal.com 2005-11-20 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's usually a good idea to ask if you're not sure what somebody meant by something. A lot of times I read things literally too -- I'm not clear on what people mean especially when I don't know them well, and have to read it 6 or 8 times before I see it. With autism it's sometimes hard to tell when people are being sarcastic and when they mean it.

Re: We told her

[identity profile] spookshow-girl.livejournal.com 2005-11-19 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes you did misunderstand the post. The term was meant to indicate you did a good thing there. *sighs*

--Me

Re: We told her

[identity profile] sethrenn.livejournal.com 2005-11-21 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the most sincerely fucked-up persons we've ever known promoted themselves as being examples of 'normal people' and their behaviour as 'what normal people do.' Not just that, but those particular individuals also repeatedly informed us that we didn't understand 'how normal people do things' because we had never gotten a chance to be exposed to it, and they were going to be the ones to show us how to be normal. Last time it happened, we finally wised up to the fact that there was nothing normal about continual emotional abuse and walked on them, despite their warnings that we would never be able to live or get along with other people if we ignored their 'help.'

Re: We told her

[identity profile] luwana.livejournal.com 2005-11-20 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
What a loser. I suggest you introduce her nose to the back of her skull get away from her ASAP. That shit is NOT healthy. Although, being passive aggressive is not a good way to start a constructive discussion.

Re: We told her

[identity profile] luwana.livejournal.com 2005-11-21 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
[strike]I didn't say this, honest[/strike], Replacing the []s with the typical HTML tags.


Passive aggressive is an art form :P It's not being quiet and bitching when somebody's gone. It's *subtle* bitching. It's saying something which isn't *technically* something that should start an arguement, but that you know will, and in a tone that means it will. It's very hard to explain without examples, and my brain is mush this morning.

If you see sarcasm in a bitch fight, it's often passive aggressive ^^ Others will be better at describing than me.

We don't use strike tags for editing usually. We use it for "Here's what I really want to say but know I shouldn't, but for humours sake will say anyway followed by the polite version."

[identity profile] duathir.livejournal.com 2005-11-21 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The likelihood of any 'mental health professional' believing in the reality of your Kin is slight. According to orthodox psychiatric dogma, it is not possible for more than one person to share a single body; therefore those who perceive themselves to do so are, by definition, mentally disordered.

According to established psychiatric tradition, it is acceptable to lie to and emotionally manipulate the mentally disordered under the pretext of 'helping them'. This frequently takes the form of pretending to believe whatever the disordered person claims to be true. You are certainly not the first to be taken in by this ruse.

What you may now expect of this person is that she will attempt to discredit you in the eyes of as many people as possible, by telling them things you have told her in as damning a way as possible and insisting that you are crazy. I do not know you or your situation, therefore cannot advise you, but can tell you that in a similar situation my advice to my own sister was to 'confess' that she had made it all up, that my brother and I did not exist outside of her imagination.

She did this, and while the consequences were not pleasant for her, they were better than they might otherwise have been. In this society, lying is such common custom that to be viewed as a liar carries no great weight of opprobrium, while to be viewed as mentally ill poses clear and present danger. I know it goes against the grain to claim that one was lying when one was not, but it is the most expedient way to contain the potential damage from having spoken truth when one should not have.

There is no way to prove you are multiple if you say that you are not. There is no way for this woman to prove any allegations of what you said to her, if no one else heard you say it. You have what is called 'plausible deniability' on your side, for most people in this place do not believe in multiplicity.

[identity profile] duathir.livejournal.com 2005-11-22 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I am not a lawyer. 'Plausible deniability' is technically a legal term, but it is frequently seen in common usage.

It sounds as if your erstwhile friend already believes you to be a liar, so you would not lose much by corroborating that belief. However, I do not suggest this as an initial strategy; only as an option to consider if and when she begins a campaign to discredit you in the eyes of others.