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Once had a co-worker who demeaned me, silo'd me, ignored me at every turn, & told me multiple times in the school year, "how did you get to your ___ year teaching?" Started seeing a therapist cuz of this human. Took time for the rest of the staff to value/respect me after that. https://twitter.com/VictoriaTheTech/status/1352337289855160326
Certainly I had my own role to play in this dynamic, but that was my first year at that school and it never needed to come to that. I never said a bad word about that educator then cuz I knew the truth would come to light. Learned a lot about standing up for myself tho that year.
Been thinking about it this afternoon: to downsize that toxic behavior towards me, I would repeat to myself over and over again a version of "hurt people hurt people." Took a long time to realize that just because that was true didn't mean I should get hurt and abused like that.
I found myself being gaslit every. single. day. when I went to work. Constantly second-guessed myself & made excuses for that coworker. Got to a point where I had to put this guide to being gaslighted on my wall so I would believe my own reality and that I was being mistreated.
