This is a response to a Reddit post concerning family accusation that’s tearing into a teenage young man to the bone and causing immense distress. Finally, it has been said plainly in my own words! I kept asking how long and seeking and searching and found SO MUCH! And finally the core, the key, the whole thing! The normal person’s little key to complete liberation was never said so plainly by me until the last paragraph so I’ll paste it here too so no one who reads this misses it. The rest of the post has great advice too so don’t forget to keep reading! Wishing you the best, friend! You got this! Key here is - this world we live in has super bandwidth capped and fearful cultures because we are young and think we are old. We lack wisdom and where there is a lack of wise rule, fear takes over and instead of that being signal for growth in a wisdom culture it becomes signal for terror in cultures that lack wisdom. At the very least, your mother has a fear/terror disease clouding her judgment and care of herself and family. It’s far too common in this day and age and the only cure is selfishness that’s sloppy, embarrassing, and the kind that can be 100% wrong and still be honest. That’s how we grow through a culture lacking wisdom that has a lot of fear but such cultures require a strong image to feel safe so it’s pretty tricky to navigate without feeling even more fear! Given that, your own inner light that’s your very own sense of “I can and will figure this out because life isn’t pure crap”….thats your key. If you don’t hide that light out of fear and keep leaning into that, even sloppily, even messing up 1000 times, I’d say you’re a fully enlightened seedling sprouting roots and even breaking through the soil, my friend. Welcome to life, brother, there is much work ahead for us and we’re glad you’re here :). Here’s how the original post began :). Lots of good advice for everyone here. Ok, so, I know this sucks, I have my own version of this in my family on a LOT of matters and it’s ALWAYS disturbing and frustrating down to the bone. I’ve gotten to a point where I realized emotional sharing and reflective listening are SUPER important, even if I have to repeat the words WHILE they talk so they can see if they’re projecting or if what they say lands. Be close if you do that one so the reactions on your face and, let’s say you’re mom’s for instance, can be clearly seen. THAT is almost like magic because when I was SO upset no one would listen to ANYTHING from my end and only make WILD accusations against me, it hit ME to the bone in reverse that they were just projecting. It made me feel waaaay better and, in this instance it was my wife who had an insanely wild and detailed made up story she was 100% convinced of that was 100% projection, she also could feel and see where what landed on me, what was actually her projecting, and where we actually agreed.