Narcissistic Abuse | Sounding Crazy to Others | Surviving The Aftermath

Yeah, I I've had that a lot too -- people treating me like I was crazy. In fact, it was considered conventional during the nineties to label women, in particular, "oversensitive". So, I thought, well perhaps that could be true. I come from a very warlike society originally, but we women were nowhere as tough or as stoical as the men were expected to be. So I worked more on my toughness and developed my inner will and stoicism. I also upgraded my expectations that most people around would be much tougher than I, and that I could basically tell them anything and not expect them to react. In fact, the opposite was true. Most people couldn't put up with even a tenth of what I had been putting up with all this time without over-reacting. I tested that. I found it to be true. And after all of this, something even stranger happened. I was accused of aiming to be tough and not just accepting conventional gender roles. The goal posts were changed!
This could make you completely crazy. It almost did, to me.