Hi there! I have a question, which is asking for your personal opinion, but Im also curious if you have any specific resources. How does one reconcile "believe and support victims" with "unfortunately false memories and delusions can be a reality"
I think about this when dozens of women come out with allegations about the same famous man for example, there seems to be a tipping point where I start to become skeptical of of so many people saying over and over that one person did something to them, not that *nothing* happened, but that maybe it's easy to get swept up in a movement more or less.
These are of course inside thoughts because I was flat out accused of lying and exaggerating as a child when I tried to come forward about the sexual abuse I encountered growing up in the church, and I would never want anyone to feel that level of dismissal, but it is something Ive been thinking about since the advent of Me Too and doubly so with the Epstien case that seems to have so many false reports combined with real abuse.
If asking for your opinion on this is too heavy or personal I completely understand! Thank you for taking the time to read this, regardless, and thank you for the hours and hours of work you put in to helping people navigate conspiracy.
If numerous people who worked or associated with a powerful person come out and say that they hurt them in relatively ordinary ways (such as rape, battery, etc), there's no particular reason to doubt it. Power easily lets people get away with that. For example, we should believe the people who've spoken out against Neil Gaiman.
But when it comes to extraordinary claims that have failed to yield extraordinary evidence and are in fact frequently discredited every time actual investigations happen (such as ritual abuse and alter programming, in the original definitions of these terms) I think the main thing is to remember that just because people are wrong about what happened doesn't mean nothing happened.
Some people take memories of real abuse and reinterpret them through the lens of conspiracy theories.
Some people believe they must have hidden trauma because they don't believe the things they actually do remember were bad enough to traumatize them.
Some people have trauma they can't remember for one reason or another, and were led to believe that the only explanation was ritual abuse/alter programming.
Let's take a look at Michelle Smith, for example. She had very real causes for trauma. Her father was abusive and left the family when she was a child. Her mother died when she was fourteen. Her first pregnancy resulted in miscarriage. When she was hospitalized, she was put into the same room her mother died in, which made her feel that she was going to die.
Dr. Lawrence Pazder convinced her that she must have had repressed memories, and got her to "remember" a bunch of ritual abuse that has been thoroughly discredited. These confabulated "memories" caused even more distress.
We can accept that these people are in real pain from real trauma, and that they are being taken advantage of by conspiracy theories and medical quackery designed to exploit them. This might upset them, but it's not our job to manage other people's feelings, especially when they're spreading dangerous conspiracy theories.
For anybody else reading this: religious abuse is real, human trafficking is real, sexual abuse is real, and your symptoms are real. What's demonstrably not real is the alleged practice of using torture to deliberately give people DID and creating customized alters to fill certain roles and perform certain tasks. To learn more about how we know this, click here.
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