I’m familiar with one-uppers - like if you say I only got 6 hours of sleep last night and someone has to chime in and say “that’s nothing! I got only 3 hours”

So something similar to that but not one-upping.

Like if you said "I worked in a warehouse once, my boss was cool, and the work wasn’t bad. " And then someone replied with, “I don’t know what gravy-ass, non-real-job place you worked at, but every warehouse I have worked in sucks!”

So, the person is kind of one-upping but that the same time trying to claim that your lived experience isn’t true and their experience is the way things actually are.

Is there a word for that?

  • Septimaeus
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    1 year ago

    sol•ip•sis•tic | ,sälap’sistik |

    adjective very self-centered or selfish: their solipsistic belief that only their cares are the ones of any importance | that’s a very solipsistic outlook.

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    solipsistically | ,sälip’sistik(a)le | adverb

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    late 19th century: from solipsist + -ic.

    Edit: … especially if you get the sense they don’t consider your experience valid, as if the limits of their personal experience circumscribes all knowable reality. This connotation relates to its original use in philosophical metaphysics.