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[quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks PPs. What I’m referring to moreso is that it makes [i]me[/i] question if I am remembering the event correctly?

I then spiral into whether I have it correct or if he does. Almost as if I am convinced that his version is accurate even if I know it’s not. My mind is reversing in some manner. Like  I know he’s cognitively impaired but my mind is accepting his version as fact.

This one is more sensitive of an example:

Dad: Jane had two brothers and an abortion four times with four sons she would’ve had sons. 
My mind: I know Jane had no children but is it true? Is this why? It can’t be because they wouldn’t have had gender ultrasounds back then. I then started researching the subject. My mind now always thinks of what if Jane had those abortions and that’s why she had no children.

Sometimes it’s smaller things:

Dad: Judy called me yesterday.
My mind: Did Judy call? Maybe I didn’t realize she had the number. Would she have called? My mind races with thoughts.

I’m not sure how to even describe this. Is this gaslighting myself? 
I hadn’t heard of anyone else experiencing this and I’m not sure if its a form of anxiety, if it’s some type of forming mental incapacitation in me, or absolutely normal? [/quote]

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