My mom used to be a smart, caring nice lady. I grew up watching star trek with her, discussing science and politics was very normal. Just a nice midwest lady.

Then about 4 years ago she started falling down these conspiracy rabbit holes. Now she thinks Biden eats babies and that vaccines make you magnetic. She's lost all credibility with her family and friends. It's isolating her and making her a very lonely person.

My very real question is this: How do I convince her that you are a bunch of crayon eating retards with about as much medical expertise as Doogie Howser?

How have the rest of you dealt with being alienated from your family over insane conspiracy theories?

Are you really in a better place now for it?

I'll bet I'll see a lot of cope in this post, and you can get mad and flame me all you want. But you know deep down this has been incredibly destructive. You know deep down you're making this shit up and filling in the gaps.

Your life would be better without this. Your family loves you and wants to be with you.