Have you ever lived or is currently living with a fearmonger?

[Anonymous]

For starts I live with my mom who I take care of. She spends a lot of her time on Youtube and TikTok where you get some good information, incorrect information, hearsay, or exaggerated info. She believes that she can find more correct information on those social medias than Google itself for some reason and for someone who is highly educated, I don't understand why.

In recent news, it appears that the US may be soon approaching a darker time surrounding food, supplies, employment, and housing due to Trump's tariffs policies and how other countries have reacted. It is scary and we should be preparing for what is to come, I understand. However, she is under the impression that nothing is on the shelves at stores this very moment and when she go we'll have to prepare to see them empty. Maybe soon, but not today I told her. She's under the impression that Amazon isn't safe to order from if I need something before 2 weeks from now.

It's just really exhausting living with someone like this every time things like this comes. The last time was Covid which was tragic for many people, but those of us that survived through it, survived through it.

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I am aware of censoring and often, the US censors our news so Tiktok is an outlet, but she doesn't understand that you have to be balanced on where you get news from

[Kaneki05]

As evidence shows highly educated don't mean a person is rational. No, but my mother was crazy or should I say still is but I don't have any contact with her now, I wouldn't call it fearmonger more just everything has to be a bigger deal than it is. And everything is somehow racist, sexist whatever. Without even being self aware that what she was saying actually is.

Example, she would say 'You can't call a black guy bro you don't know what that implies...' meaning she is saying I need to change my words around a black guy just because they are black... treating someone differently based on their race hmm there is a word for that.

[Asker]

I think what you're describing is something different. I'm talking about people fearmongering about apocalyptic/dystopian things. Your mom doesn't sound crazy in that aspect to me personally. Maybe a little too cautious, coming from a black person lol, but she sounds aware of things that have offended people for valid reasons.

[Kaneki05]

That's why I said I wouldn't call it fearmonger.
Oh she is this one tiny example, think about it she would do this for anything.
She also became a vegan 40 years into her life playing that up too 'I don't get how you can eat that the smell of meat is so gross' the same person who ate meat for all those years and never once complained.

She also got into a cult, yes a literal cult. Then she loved tarot cards saying how she could predict anyones future easily and can see people's auras.
A excuse to say mine was black which she said was evil.
Then afterwards she became a Christian saying that actually all that tarot stuff is satanic and the devil was fooling her.

She would change her mind very frequently, and be fanatical about everything. Nvm the constant gaslighting, and just lying. She said my dad never paid any of the child support, meanwhile my dad showed me exact proof that he always has.
And then she would tell me my dad is gay as if that was a bad thing, so I asked my dad anyway if he liked guys at all he was very confused. And not once I have I ever seen him be interested in a man and all his exs including a recent was a girl.

[ProbablyClueless]

Lots of fear mongers around where I live. Actually, my dad and one of my better friends are like that; they freeze up a lot in fear. They don't acknowledge that fact though. You would think they were battle hardened warriors with the way they talk. When bullets start flying, they curl up.

I have chosen to live my life proactively despite that influence. I kind of just tune it out.

[Asker]

Yeah exactly! Its nothing wrong with preparing for things, but I think these people don't acknowledge the amount of fear they bottle up. She calls my grandma out for always fearing the outside and saying she's scared if we go out at night, but she doesn't realize she's the same in a different font.

[ProbablyClueless]

Preparing for things. Acknowledging when you fall short. Admitting when you are scared.

Authenticity is an important part of courage and humility.

[DryGermanGuy]

How can the US censor any news? Americans have no media literacy, that’s why they fall for all that amateur produced FUD on antisocial media!

[DrPepper12]

She's toxic

[Anonymous]

No..

[Asker]

Lucky you!

[Anonymous]

Nope