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Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

Sep 15

Why Are Autistic/ Neurodivergent Individuals More Vulnerable to Cults or toxic groups?

1. Vulnerability:
Autistic individuals face challenges in *social emotional* understanding, making them more susceptible to manipulation by toxic individuals, leaders, groups or cults.

2. Reading Social Cues:
Autistic individuals have a lower ability to detect *deception*. This means they might not recognize when they're being lied to or manipulated, a common tactic in cult/group recruitment. They also may misunderstand someone being genuinely nice to them.

They tend to take what people say at ‘face value’, making them easy prey for predators (group leaders). They have difficulties in reading faces/body language & ‘intention’. This makes them vulnerable to groomers, sexual abuse, predators &/or cult leaders &/or radical ideologies

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Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

Sep 3

👺Narcissists/predators employ a tactic known as “memory holing” to manipulate and control their victims, a form of ‘gaslighting’. This can cause trauma and PTSD to the target.
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Here's how this process typically unfolds:

🔻Distortion of Reality: Narcissists perceive their reality through a *distorted* lens. They deny events, conversations, or promises ever happened. They also live untethered from reality and are often delusional

They are known to say, “That never happened,” or “You're imagining things,” even when the target has clear memories or documented evidence to the contrary. This is solely designed to make the victim question their own memory, reality and sanity.

🔻Selective Memory: Predators might acknowledge some events however they twist the details to suit their narrative. For instance, if a victim confronts a narcissist about a hurtful comment, the narcissist might claim they were joking or that the victim misunderstood, thereby altering the memory of the event. This causes confusion.

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Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

Aug 25

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Narcissistic abuse example: Laura and Mark

Laura met Mark at a professional conference Mark was charming, successful, and seemed incredibly attentive. He quickly swept Laura off her feet with grand gestures, constant communication, and an *apparent* deep interest in her life

This phase, often called “love bombing,”, made Laura feel like she was in a fairy tale. After all, he was her knight in shining armour, right?

The Shift:
🚩Isolation:
After moving in together, Mark started to subtly criticize Laura's friends and family, suggesting they didn't really care about her or were bad influences

Over time, Laura saw less of her friends and loved ones, becoming increasingly dependent on Mark. She had a history of being ‘co-dependent’. This was learned from her primary attachment with her father. He was narcissistically abusive towards her. It felt ‘normal’ to her.

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Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

Oct 23, 2023

Psychic epidemics or mass psychosis is what we are seeing today 2023 & appears to be a collection of several smaller psychic epidemics forming into a much larger one. In Carl Jung's terminology, a psychic epidemic refers to a collective & contagious manifestation

of certain psychological themes or archetypal symbols within a society or a group of individuals. Jung believed that the human psyche is connected on a deeper level, and when certain *ideas* thoughts words or symbols become charged with emotional energy,

they can spread through the collective unconscious of a community or even across cultures & groups, influencing people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We observe this now on social media & in the news. These psychic epidemics can be positive or negative

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Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

Feb 22, 2023

How do you tell if someone is a ‘Narcissist’? By their ‘behaviours’, regardless of who the person ‘says’ they are. Always go by behaviours. 1. Trolling 2. Mobbing, gossip & smear campaigns 3. Name calling 4. Narcissistic rage 5. Projection & gaslighting

6. False accusations 7. Withholding 8. Stalking 9. Passive Aggressive 10. Inability to resolve issue & move forward 11. Black & white thinking 12. Splitting 13. Threatening or violent Words 14. Sulking 15. Coercion 16. Highly controlling &/or a group ‘leader’ & control the group

17. Public humiliation (doxxing, cancellation) 18. A clear lack of boundaries and/or violation of other people’s boundaries 19. May be ‘fixated’ on revenge for perceived slights 20. The silent treatment 21. Using money as a weapon 22. Triangulation 23. Idealisation & demonisation

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Tania Marshall 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿Psychotherapist Author

@TaniaAMarshall

Nov 19, 2022

Cult recruitment: In order for ‘cults’ to be successful they rely on ‘recruiting’ others. They target ‘vulnerable’ isolated, alone, neglected children or adults. For vulnerable people, #cults are very tempting because the cult provides love-Bombing #stage1

A sense of safety, promises of rewards friends & actual rewards. Who could possibly refuse? They typically use becoming more joyful, happy, obtaining bliss as a #promise Who wouldn’t want that? A new family? #Acceptance? Love? It’s a nice loving supportive environment initially

#stage2 Cults are now online. Recruitees may be constantly bombarded by cult jargon new #language new wording The group expects recruitees to divulge everything about Themselves. Those recruited usually have #epiphany of some sort which drives them further into the cult #stage3

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