People are sharing the exact moment they realized their friends and family were living in a completely different reality, and it’s both haunting and incredibly sad

Tensions are running higher than ever around the world, and while people disagreeing is nothing new, sometimes it goes far beyond “here’s my opinion.” Sometimes it feels like we live in a completely different reality.

Recently, we posted an article where people shared “the exact moment they realized their friends and family were living in a completely different reality than theirs” and this list really resonated with people, with a “POPPIN” in the comments section. So much so that we have to continue this conversation. So here are some more examples of people who are unable to bridge the divide between themselves and their friends and family.

1. “My brother doesn’t believe in bird flu. He thinks it’s a hoax concocted by the Democrats, where only one chicken got sick and the Democrats killed all the other chickens to drive up the price of eggs. My sister-in-law thinks kids in school dress like animals and think they are animals. She also believes in the trash can nonsense. They’re all fucking lunatics.”

—Crispy Jaguar 243

2. “A former colleague told me that Colin Kaepernick was only protesting because he wanted a book deal. Yeah, there’s nothing better than ruining your career as an NFL quarterback so you can finally make some real money in the publishing industry.”

—sweetghost433

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3. “I know people who think 5G causes cancer, that 9/11 was an insider crime, that there are reptilian aliens living among us. It’s scary because some of these people act smart and articulate and then start spouting nonsense. That’s my cue to slowly back off.”

—bittertoaster20

4. “I have people in my life who believe chemtrails are not just water vapor but evil substances used by governments to control people.”

——Bitter Moon 7351

5. “My stepmom said Biden was a cloned AI robot that was malfunctioning and that’s why he acted the way he did toward the end of his term as president. I laughed and she said she meant it. We won’t discuss any more politics or I’ll leave.”

——Grumpy Sun 51

6. “My father told me that Fauci owned the patent on HIV.”

-anonymous

7. “My family said, ‘Millions of illegal immigrants voted!’ Well, but the state of Texas spent a lot of money investigating this problem, hoping to find many examples. They only found one woman who voted because she believed she was born in the United States. Only one. She voted Republican.

—dizzyshark41

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8. “My dad is a rabid anti-mask. We were going somewhere together one time and he refused to wear a mask. We had an argument about it, during which I told him that he was putting other people’s lives at risk, let alone his own. He said, ‘If I die, it’s my time. If they die, it’s their time.’ I felt sick. I always knew my dad was a bad person, but this was a turning point for me. I don’t talk to him anymore.”

——Kemskobe

“By that logic, it would be morally acceptable for him to drive drunk, throw a child into a swimming pool to sink or swim, or eat flaming steak on an open gas tank in the woods. Sometimes, no contact is necessary for personal safety and mental health.”

——The village idiot

9. “The fools I know who won’t vaccinate their children must have vaccinated themselves and been fine. I wonder where they have their measles parties?”

—bmoreprincess07

10. “Anyone who says Sandy Hook was a hoax.”

-anonymous

11. “My sister-in-law has been very vocal about not wearing a mask during COVID. She’s always posting about it being a ‘violation of her rights,’ ‘COVID isn’t that bad, they’re manipulating the numbers,’ blah blah blah. She insists they’re just trying to scare us. Then her 46-year-old, otherwise healthy brother was found unresponsive at home. He was in a coma for six days and then died of COVID. COVID.”

—katiel4c495e293

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12. “I see a lot of the younger generation saying that on 9/11 there were no planes hitting the towers or the Pentagon, the towers fell because of the explosion. I just wanted to scream! Like, I saw this happen in real time and it was very painful and very real.”

——thaashhole1988

13. “I know my daughter’s best friend’s family is very conservative/MAGA-filled, but when my daughter told me that her bestie’s family wouldn’t vote for Kamala Harris because she’s forcing kids in California to be ‘trans,’ I knew we had reached (another) new low in the national discourse. To make matters worse, bestie’s mom is a teacher at their school and her dad is a National Guard member serving as a resource officer for the school.”

—angelicflower401

14. “For me, I realized that my uncle was really in trouble on the day of my grandmother’s funeral. First, he pulled the mask off my aunt’s (his sister-in-law’s) face in church. She was trying to protect herself because her daughter (his niece) was scheduled to have a C-section and she didn’t want to contract COVID-19 beforehand. As it turned out, my aunt was very Wisely wore a mask because a few of us did get COVID. Most of us did. “My uncle drove out of state to find horse repellent because Trump said it would help, but I never really knew anyone who tried it, but the real kicker was finding out he believed Democrats could control the weather…”

—am301394wne

15. “Unfortunately, the group chats I have with my friends are full of conspiracy theories. He believes a few things: COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, vaccines don’t work, all the transphobic rhetoric, and the election is rigged.”

“I would always debunk his theories through sources like the BBC, the New York Times, the AP, etc. and he would just say it was all fake and then send me an article from some random website. We started another group chat without him because we were both tired of all the crap he was saying. The worst was we would talk about insignificant things like how our weekend was and he would just roll up an article saying that 9/11 was an inside job. Like no one even talks about anything 9/11 related.”

—flyerboy6

16. “A lot of people I know are not willing to look up information to check whether it’s true or false. What do you mean, you just blindly accept whatever crap some newspaper tells you?”

—Happy Owl 584

17. “My sister-in-law couldn’t believe that a seaside town that’s usually a hotspot for working-class summer vacations was vacant. She mentioned it a few times and I said people were really insecure about their futures right now. She said, ‘Trump just hasn’t had enough time yet.'” I stopped talking to her because there was no point in trying to explain that Trump had caused nothing but chaos during his two administrations and had only helped the super-rich. If she can’t see it now, she’ll never see it, and I don’t want to cause a major rift in the family. “

—quirkycan537

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18. “I was in a bar last Friday and people started telling me that the school in the next town had litter boxes for students who thought they were cats. The stories spread!”

——Metrofan

19. “I knew it when my father told me that the photos and videos I saw in Gaza were of artificial intelligence. He was not MAGA, but I knew some of his golfing buddies were. He once forwarded me emails from them calling Obama a “secret Satan-worshipping Muslim communist devil from Kenya who eats babies.” “He also thinks he’s the smartest and most capable person in the room, no matter what, especially when he’s around women or anyone AFAB. Very racist and sexist.”

——Pseudomutants

20. “My sister doesn’t believe in climate change because ‘there’s no way humans can do anything that will affect the entire planet.'” She believes the heat waves and catastrophic weather events of the past few years are related to the sun’s normal changes, and that things will work out as the sun slowly sets. “

-anonymous

twenty one. Ultimately, “I’m starting to think that everyone has always been like this, and we’re just seeing it now because of how connected we all are.”

—purpleorc394

Have you ever felt like you were living in a completely different reality than the people you knew? What are the signs? Let me know in the comments or using the anonymous form below. Your reply may be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed article!

NOTE: Responses have been edited for length/clarity.

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