I used to believe – assume, really – that it is mostly narcissists who engage in gaslighting and that autistic people don’t and that the latter rarely or never lie either.

Now I am learning that autistic people can also be pretty good at gaslighting. I suspect that it sometimes happens when they feel that you are in a vastly inferior position and that the gaslighting makes them feel good about themselves. It’s not as straightforward as that, however. They can also take liberties with the truth pretty easily. Their view of reality can be really off, but that is often genuine, I think. It’s like they can live in an alternate reality. It can be quite baffling.