RE: Steemit and Whales Are Under Threat of Being Fined and Persecuted Due To A Campaign By FTC Because of Someone Who Has Been Attacking @familyprotection and @informationwar Communities
Hi @vimukthi
I'm sorry to see that you have wasted so much of your energy on sunlit7
Early on I recognized Narcissitic Personality Disorder.
Some of the key traits are feeling entitled, and having to play the victim role, and seeking lots of attention (negative or positive). I have done LOTS of research on this disorder, and ignoring them and not giving them the attention that they seek is the best thing that you can do.
I do not think that her complaints will gain any traction with authorities as she has no facts to back them up.
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She attacked me really badly on one of my posts (a long time ago), saying horrible things about what type of a person I am. I ignored all her comments. Now this could just be the sign of a rude person. The narcissist part comes next. A few days later she wrote a post tagged with #familyprotection (the tag and community that I created) about growing up in foster care. Mark almost upvoted it, but I showed him her comments of disdain for me, and of course we both refrained from upvoting her.
From then on, she has been complaining about how I will only upvote one side of the story and how biased I am, and complaining that she can't make any money on Steemit because the one thing that she has important to write about won't get my vote!
Now that is CLEARLY not the sign of an emotionally healthy person. If she was simply a jerk or someone who disagreed with me or even someone who hated me, then she would NEVER have felt ENTITLED to my upvote and support after treating me that way.
Everything else that she has done since then has only confirmed that she is a narcissist.
I really don't like to get into this type of drama on the blockchain for all to see. But since you wrote about it and since I don't want you or others to waste anymore time worrying about her, I am laying this out here.
Funny you should say that. The first thought that came to mind after reading this post was "Narcissist". I've had enough experience dealing with a narcissist to know you are absolutely correct, the only was is to ignore / separate yourself from them. Once you do separate yourself, under no circumstances should you allow them back into your life!!!! All of my research indicates that their is NO cure for a narcissistic personality, so don't think you can help them you will only bee feeding the disorder.
Bingo! It is of no use to give a long list of facts when trying to reason with a narcissist. That is because their emotions are 100% truth to them, and the facts are irrelevant.
This article explains it well.
https://pairedlife.com/problems/Stop-Explaining-to-The-Narcissist-Do-This-Instead
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I know that @vimukthi looks for the best in people, just as I always try to do. However once you have seen the signs that you are dealing with a narcissist it is best to just stop trying to explain yourself. As it says in this article, the best response to one of their attacks is this --
"I'm sorry that you feel that way, but you're entitled to your opinion,"
or
"I disagree with that, but you are entitled to your feelings."
It is best not to feed their chaos with any further comments.
What push me into conversation more is having misinformation written on the blockchain. When there is something utterly wrong written I just have to correct it if it's especially on one of my own posts or someone might actually get a very wrong idea about things. It's hard for me to not pick apart false claims, FUD and misinformation.
Yes, I can understand that.
Totally understandable and that is what makes it so hard to separate from them.
You learn from experiences and pass them forward. So it's not much of a waste in my eyes. I haven't really met anyone with the kind of symptoms you described. I'm young and live with minimal social interactions. The only narcissists I've met were talented jerks or people who won't shut up about how awesome they are.
I'm sad to say this but we might even end up with more of the same as STEEM grow in numbers. We may end up having to use that mute button a lot. No single government can really bring down STEEM. But I don't want to see some regulators trying to throw a wrench into the development while we are still young.
Wish you and @familyprotection Best of Luck!
Ugh, I'm sorry you had to deal with that on your post- people like her make me physically ill. There's an energy they give off from thriving on negativity and the misery of others. She is most definitely a narcissist. I see a couple of her recent posts have been flagged, hopefully she'll just move on.
Don't let her get you down! There are far more fantastic people on this platform than people like her :)
Don't worry. I have very tough skin. She didn't even upset me much. I just couldn't let these things go unnoticed and without response. Despite all its flaws STEEM and Steemit Inc are like a quasi-home. It's where we interact with each other and even earn few bucks. I also have a small stake (about ~3900 SP). I have all he incentives to keep this platform safe from threats.
I'm not even talking about the FTC. Misinformation can deal more damage than simply taking a bunch of coders, stakeholders and witnesses to court.
I hear you. I love this platform, I've met so many beautiful souls and finally had an outlet for my stories- I can even say that the first book I published on Amazon is largely the result of the encouragement I found here. And I also have a stake in this, so I understand completely. I just wanted to cheer you up in case her corrosive energy was infecting you at all :)
Narcissitic Personality Disorder.....that's classic coming from a woman who had her kid(s) taken from her then feels compelled to spend the rest of her life trying to defend her mistakes playing the victim.
My children have never been taken from me and I've never been under investigation. I am not a victim. Life has been good to me.
I thought that you had actually read my post entitled: "My History with @familyprotection and why I am involved" before you disparaged me over and over to the people who had replied to me.
https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@canadian-coconut/my-history-with-familyprotection-and-why-i-am-involved
It's late and I will read it later I promise, I will wholeheartedly apologized for any misunderstanding on my part of something that I may have misinterpreted as you or as you saying.
I will sincerely apologize now, for whatever reason I thought you were Anna, (lol) not that that's funny, I remember reading Anna's story, somehow going back and worth with the different links I assumed incorrectly that her story was your story.
I have also noticed since our last eruption you have been more carefully wording your support and advice, these are delicate situations, you or I really don't know some of these people or what happened with them outside their side the story, most people can take and decipher something in their own minds but others just take things they see on the internet as truth and who knows if that's really helpful to them or not if they confront a caseworker with something they seen or heard on the internet. Some people aren't to bright, lucky for us Snowpea didn't listen to anyone but her heart and she came out above it all but you can tell by the way she writes she is intelligent. I guess you could even take her as an example of what I was trying to say when she got really made at CPS and her mother she came here and vented with everyone her frustration, that was a positive outlet for her and there was people here to help her through that, some people just don't have that kind of discipline and would have gone off on a caseworker. I hope moving forward you can see where I was coming from and will admit that even myself I could have handled my frustration a little better. Needless to say I will always have the view from my own personal experiences that family protection is a mix of the good, bad and the ugly.