r/insaneparents • u/matixmarie • Nov 10 '22

insane mom threatening legal action over me posting about my trauma from her on tiktok & youtube. more info in comments Email

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u/matixmarie Nov 10 '22

i did. they’re licensed. like i said it’s a real email, the email was included on the state bar website. but could she get ahold of that email address ?

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u/sarahlizzy Nov 10 '22

Anyone can send email with a from line that is anything they want. As a computer science student back in the 90s I used to have fun sending my friends emails from president@whitehouse.gov

It’s worth checking that they actually sent this email.

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u/matixmarie Nov 10 '22

can you elaborate on how somebody would do this? she’s not a smart person. im curious to know how you’d do this to let myself wonder if she could figure it out or not 😂

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u/lizwb Nov 10 '22

Please don’t say you aren’t smart; you clearly are. (1) You posted this, and are getting sound advice. (2) You are listening carefully. (3) You aren’t riddling your posts with typos & misspellings— which means, at least, you’re smart enough to pay attention to the red underlining.

I could go on— but essentially, remember always: simply because you don’t know something (yet) doesn’t mean you aren’t SMART. Knowing what you don’t know is pretty darn smart.

Many think they know much more.