Jane, london

I spent three months developing a new process that significantly cut our team's turnaround time. When it was presented to senior leadership, my manager walked them through it as though it were his own work. My name wasn't mentioned once. When I spoke to him about it afterwards, he said he'd "built on my initial idea", as though what I'd handed him was a sketch rather than a finished product. I didn't push back hard enough, partly because I didn't trust my own account of what had happened. That's the thing nobody tells you, gaslighting doesn't just steal credit, it steals your confidence in your own version of events.

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