Liars lie and gaslighters gaslight. If you haven't encountered such a person, count yourself lucky. It produces conflict and drama, deflection and noise. ADULTS have difficulty making sense of it. I fear that TS conducts herself thusly and has done so over time. Which makes me worry about her treatment of children, particularly OPKs. (Other People's Kids) Nothing is ever her fault, nothing has ever been her fault which is the HALLMARK of gaslighting, sociopathy...
Easy example: adult with sociopathy "disciplines" a child for a perceived infraction, with let's say a face slap. Unexpectedly, child falls backwards, hitting a coffee table which causes a gash.
WE see that the adult is wholly responsible for the entire series of events. But he/she wouldn't.
A sociopath would say AND BELIEVE that it's the child's fault, first for "misbehaving" and second for falling and incurring injury.
It's ill logic. (Which is why it's a DISORDER. It's not a lie insomuch as it's a CORRUPT MANNER OF INTERPRETATION.)
Now imagine a parent or caretaker with pathological thinking forcing a child by whatever means necessary to accept responsibility for everything that fell... YOU did this. YOU broke the table. YOU caused your injury to happen.
Some people don't interact like everyone else. They simply act, react and manipulate.
I don't know what happened in Gannon's house in the 24 hours leading up to his disappearance but something did. He didn't disappear on any prior Mondays. So what changed?
I think it's obvious-- something happened that, if exposed, would threaten TS's concept of self (extraordinary caretaker, the better mother, etc) and to protect her very identity, she had to make that situation gone.
I think we will be doubled over in grief when we learn what led us to where we are now, because it'll reveal just how little she thought of the little boy we've all come to love.
He's missing IMO because of what she did to him.
It's that simple. It's that sick.
JMO JMO JMO
