Chat Rooms, Online Groups & Message Boards: Some online groups, chat rooms and message boards can packed with those types of individuals and you might not know it until the individuals begin acting like children (rather worse than children because for the most part, children are kind and of good nature). So what do you do when you run into this type of models person online? You have so many options open to you; it is your choice which option you use.
Handle Fixations, Verbal Abuse & Verbal Attacks: (For Adults)
- First, know and realize that no matter what that person types or says about you, you are a valuable person, a warm, caring individual who is not diminished by what others feel, say or type about you.
- When the individual types to you, if that individual addresses you by names that you have told them not to use, or addresses you by name-calling, verbal attacks, accusations or verbal abuse, ignore the individual as you would ignore a child who is behaving badly. (In the real life situation of a child behaving badly, you would use a different method and you would reason, talk with, explain and communicate with the child but when an adult is acting like a child, you use the full ignore process).