“Landmine people,” said Pyrrha, and when she said it Nona’s brows crossed in confusion, she said: “Some people were put into the universe to rig it to explode, then walk away … I always fell for that.”
-Tamsyn Muir, “Nona the Ninth.” New York: Tor Books, 2022.
Another name to add to my ongoing series: Hoodoos, Sucking Black Holes, Psychic Vampires, The Unhappy & The Unlucky, Toxic People, Narcissist’s Prayer, etc.
“Ellen Biros, MS, LCSW, a therapist in Suwanee, Georgia, describes grey rocking as a technique for interacting with manipulative and abusive people. This can include people with narcissistic personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder as well as toxic people without a mental health diagnosis…She goes on to explain that since people with manipulative personalities feed on drama, the duller and more boring you seem, the more you undermine their efforts to manipulate and control you.”
—Timothy J. Legg, “Dealing With a Manipulative Person? Grey Rocking May Help.” Healthline. December 12, 2019.
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