“What a sick lying poisonous toad of man."
The Internet Expert Who Knows Nothing. There is a strange phenomenon on the internet. People who have never met you, never lived your life, never sat with you during your darkest moments, somehow become convinced that they know your story better than you do. Not only do they think they know it, they feel entitled to rewrite it. I've experienced this repeatedly over the years. Individuals who possess only fragments of information, rumours, gossip, assumptions, and their own imaginations confidently present themselves as authorities on events they neither witnessed nor understood. My mother's death is one example. I have seen people construct elaborate narratives about what happened, who was responsible, what people's motives were, and what supposedly took place. They speak with absolute certainty despite having no direct knowledge whatsoever. The reality is far less dramatic and far more tragic. My mother died from smoke inhalation after a small fire. It was a heartbreaking ...
