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decision. The berate you for your thoughts and even give you a
negative label so that you begin to think twice about raising your
opinions. Social media has made it easier than ever for
manipulators to comfortably sit behind their keyboards or their
screens and make tall, general statements aimed at causing
maximum emotional damage to their targets. Pay close attention
and you’ll notice that a lot of their statements actually have no
rational basis to these claims. Their sole purpose is simply to
belittle their target.
They Love Extreme Labelling - Who do you know in your life
that loves making you feel bad by exaggerating claims that
highlight just how biased you can be? A colleague that makes
unpleasant remarks about the way your dress and passes it off as
“simply joking around” will very well turn around and make you
out to be the bad guy if you point out how much you dislike
having remarks made about the way that you dress. You can’t
take a joke, can you? Or Are you honestly THAT sensitive? Are
examples of exaggerated statements aimed at making you out to
be the bad guy.
They Never Appreciate You - No matter what you do for them,
it’s never going to be food enough. No matter what you do, it
will never be satisfactory enough to warrant any gratitude. Tell
them you can dance and they’ll ask you if you can do math while
you dance. Tell them you’re happily single and they’ll ask isn’t it
a struggle to be that lonely. Tell them you’ve been happily
married for a while now and if it’s just you and your spouse,
they’ll ask what you’re waiting for and why haven’t you started a
family yet. No matter what you tell them, they’ll always find
some kind of fault with it.
They Make You Feel Bad - About everything. Quite literally
everything. If you go out with another group of friends, they’ll