To those who want to actually help Claudia Conway after her…

Kellyanne Conway has a well-documented history of verbally abusing, gaslighting, and threatening her daughter. It gets worse when highly public things go viral (such as exposing the truth about Trump and Conway catching COVID-19 last October). Kellyanne coerces false statements.

Insider did a thorough chronological background of the history of exposing her parents abuse and control of her here: https://t.co/ncjaEyLOSC

We all know that “statement” last year was coerced. She talks constantly about being abused by them.

Personally? I suspect Kellyanne is a narcissist. From my own experience being sexually and emotionally abused by a narcissist, they are obsessed with controlling the narrative (coerced typed statement), discrediting their victim (posting her nudes) & gaslighting

If you haven’t experienced gaslighting or aren’t familiar with it, it’s when someone causing you harm (physical, emotional, sexual, financial, etc) twists the facts and asserts that reality is just you being delusional and you don’t actually understand what happened.

Regardless of having actual proof of reality, they refuse to accept it.
“I didn’t say that.”
“You know I actually meant (x).”
“I didn’t push you, you tripped.”
“You’re clumsy and you always have been.”
“You wanted it, and you liked it.”
“You’re spreading lies about me.”

When you expose that their fake outward personality is not consistent with the abuse you receive, they go nuclear. Those examples in the previous tweet are common examples of the Narcissist strategy called DARVO; Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

Those screenshots are from Manya Wakefield’s “How Narcissists Use DARVO to Escape Accountability” on Medium. Narcissism is honestly fascinating to learn about... but horrific to be a victim of. I cut mine out of my life in 2007. I couldn’t bring myself to tell the love of my life

about my rape & some of my history with that guy until 2013 when a traumatic event significantly disrupted my emotional stability. I didn’t file a report or seek therapy until 2019. I’m still not okay, and broke down again last night about it.

Only Claudia could tell you what her parents are like; I’m just speculating based on similar behaviors I recall with my own trauma as well as years of reading and discussing on Reddit’s narcissist relationships subreddits. But Claudia isn’t in a safe position to tell the truth.

Let’s be clear about something before I start getting some political arguments because of Claudia’s parents and their political roles that they lost as a result of this ongoing abuse: Politics has absolutely nothing to do with this. I’m speaking up because she asked people to.

And please spare us all the victim blaming and whatever doubts you may have about the credibility of the claims Claudia has made. Claudia has a hundred times more proof than I do of what my abuser did to me. We don’t need your mental gymnastics of sympathizing with Kellyanne.

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