Please help America. I know this sounds stupid. But I am stuck in a bit of a psychological prison of the mind. I am unable to determine fact from not fact, or unable to establish facts about reality with my "normie" mother.
I just need to know if I am being strange or she is.
Call me fag drama if you want.
I actually think you all are like brain professionals and shit and I trust someone to respond with something to tell me either I am fucking insane and looking at nothing, or someone is trying to gaslight me hard.
I can't figure out what is going on because I am 34 years old and I have a diagnosis of crazy as fuck.
My mother is 68, she does not.
I feel like she is either intentionally gaslighting me for some reason, like i have always thought she might be doing it.
But, in the last week it has gotten worse.
I feel like I need to do something to prevent my mom's psychological decline or decide I am being crazy.
I am struggling to establish fact.
The other day.
I said democrats are generally pro-choice and republicans are generally pro-life.
She argued for 20 minutes that it wasn't true or she didn't know that.
She has been a lifelong democrat and pro-choice.
Anyway. I call her today.
To talk about the church I grew up.
It was unitarian universalist and I wanted to compare liberal sexual education to a more conservative sexual education.
She keeps arguing with me that my church doesn't have liberal views on sexuality compared to the christian churches.
Is that not a fact?
am I crazy?
I showed her this article.
https://www.uusic.org/sexuality-through-a-uu-lens/
I used this quote for a conversation.
UUism sees sexual expression as an affirming part of the human experience, and we support everyone’s right to learn about and engage in sex in consensual, pleasurable, developmentally appropriate ways. We also acknowledge that sexuality in our society is damaged by violence, exploitation, alienation, dishonesty, abuse of power, and the treatment of persons as objects.
She told me that where it says "we support everyone’s right to learn about and engage in sex in consensual, pleasurable, developmentally appropriate ways."
that the word sex, doesn't mean sex. I need to read her article to get the proper context Is that true to you all>
Or is it clear that in that statement, it is referring clearly, to physical sexual activity. She is saying it actually means "sexual expression" or something. I just wanted her to see that I don't think christian faiths are talking about "pleasurable" sex.
Our faith tradition doesn’t maintain a list of “shalt nots”; rather, we offer opportunities to learn about sexuality, to engage in dialogue, and to gain spiritual perspectives on sex so that we make decisions wisely, ethically, and in accordance with our personal and faith values.
I thought that most christian churches were not "gaining spiritual persepctives" on sexuality.
Anyway. I went through this crazy sex ed program at the church. I told her to get a piece of paper and write down 2 sentences.
"The Unitarian Universalist church generally has more liberal ideas about sexuality.
The Christian church generally has more conservative ideas about sexuality.
We argued for like 20 minutes about whether those statement is true or not. She still doesn't agree with my "facts".I don't know America. I feel like i am saying obvious stuff. But I am being gaslit so hard by my own mother. I can't tell if I am crazy, she is crazy, or what.