The single most textbook, egregious, almost impressively shameless instance of reality-rewriting you can witness. Peak gaslight isn't a pattern — it's a specific moment of such blatant manipulation that observers are genuinely stunned. It's when someone denies saying something that's literally in writing, or claims an event happened the opposite way with a completely straight face, or turns the accusation of manipulation into evidence of your instability. Peak gaslight moments have a way of living rent-free in your head because they're so brazen.
Peak gaslight was him telling her she'd imagined the whole trip when she had photos from it.
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