u/angiesan

Today, I got my head hit for the second or third time this week.

Earlier this week, my mom said that there’s something psychologically wrong with my mind and that I’m unintelligent/mentally slow since I kept asking why she would aim for my head.

She keeps answering my question with “Do you want me to aim for your arm instead?”

I feel like this counts as gaslighting, but I keep second guessing myself since it doesn’t seem severe enough.

Oh, and she also kicked me a few months ago for throwing away her months-old expired coffee concentrate during an argument.

My mom hit my head today during an argument, so I (24 F) kept asking her why she hit and aimed for my head, specifically the top of my head. I kept saying that it’s not normal to aim for the head and that she’s too violent. (She tried to throw her iPhone 17 Pro Max at me earlier today as well, which was funny considering it’s a VERY expensive phone.)

The hit wasn’t like a really hard punch or anything, but it still hurts just a tiny, faint bit.

She said that it was normal to hit people’s heads and that there’s something psychologically wrong with me and that I’m “borderline” and that I need to get a psychological examination because I kept focusing on the hitting. She also said that I deserve to get my head hit.

I feel like I’m getting gaslighted?

I know that it’s really not that bad, but I just thought that aiming for the head specifically is weird. Is it normal for parents to hit their adult offspring’s head even if they’re being “bad?”