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–“Denying other people’s lived experiences is called gaslighting.”–@wordy_fiend
I’m not sure that’s true. What you’re saying is that truth is subjective rather than the objective means of decidability when perceptions, values, and opinions conflict.
Gaslighting requires not denial of experience but UNDERMINING the causes of and interpretations of that experience as presumed by the individual.
There are plenty of false experiences, stemming from false presumptions of cause, or stemming from mental psychological and mental defect – primarily neuroticism and infantilization.
There are also plenty of experiences stemming from true presumptions of cause, and stemming from correct identification of those causes, and the correct mental, psychological and emotional reaction to them.
In other words, gaslighting is lying by the use of projection and suggestion. Correcting others when they are wrong, emotionally troubled, or immature is simply doing the moral duty of coercing others to mature into responsible adults.

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