#shitty memory

Hey I could use a little help remembering something!

I swear up and down that there used to be this mmo I used to play I cant remember for the life of me what it was called i thought it might have been neopets but it doesn't look how i remember, i remember that there was this cat looking critter wearing a toga and had a halo that helped you set up and got really menacing for a cartoon cat thing if there was an issue with cookies and that there was this one swamp area where there was this glowing fruit that was shaped like a star, you could move around and you had an avatar that was a little critter and I cant remember it i'm so lost.

this isn't something big but i was taking a shit last night (tmi) and i felt weird dizzy. i was like oh is the bathroom shaking or is this the effects of pulling up consecutive all-nighters to get decent grades so my family won't be disappointed in me?

i was convinced it was an earthquake. so i got out of the bathroom, mom's in the kitchen watching something on her phone. i told her "mom, did an earthquake just happen? i felt dizzy in the toilet, did you feel it too?"

and, like the normal mother she is. she shouted: "there's no earthquake! you felt dizzy because you're always on your goddamn phone!"

okay, my mistake. chill. i didn't think much of it and went on with my night.

fast forward this morning, i was tidying up here and there. mom's sat on the couch. told us in the softest voice she could only muster when she's not triggered: "oh my gosh, an earthquake happened last night."

yeah, an earthquake did happen last night. i felt it. my cousin felt. my grandmother felt it. turns out i was right. i turn to my cousin and said what happened the night prior. you know, for laughs. my mom heard it and pouted. "hey, i never said anything like that."

????

yes you did. i remember it word for word. if you ask me to re enact it i would, and it would be on point. the interaction this morning has me thinking: huh, so that's gaslighting. pretty sure she did it countless times in the past. i wonder what memories my brain was forced to forget just because she said "it didn't happened"

*grabs paper and pen*