I have no idea what my ex said that was normal or dysfunctional. He said lot of stuff and I have no idea if that was the illness talking or him. But the dumbest things she has told me were things like
"If you listen to kid music, people would think you're a pedophile" and he told me the story about when he was listening to Hilary Duff and he had it on loud and these two young men drove by and had their windows rolled down like he did and yelled "You fucking pedophile" and I told him those were just dumb guys. Lot of people listen to her or else she wouldn't have made a top hit with her songs.
Another time he told me if I was buying kid toys or looking in toy aisles, people would think I was a pedophile, same as for going to see a kid's movie. I told him anyone who thinks that is an idiot because I could be buying a toy for someone's birthday and maybe I have a younger sibling that young or maybe I have a friend whose kid is having a birthday or maybe I am shopping for my niece or nephew. I also told him I do not care what anyone thinks of me if I go and saw a kid's movie.
"I didn't change, you're the one whose changed."
Listening to a Weird Al song called Gump "Does this song offend you?" he asks. Me: No Him: It should, this song should be offensive for you because he is making fun of you because you're like Forest Gump. Isn't that right Junior?" His son: Oh
Another time he was criticizing me about what movies I liked and what DVDs I owned so I told him when I was in high school, there were other kids who liked kid movies like Shrek and other Disney movies and he goes "They were in special ed" and I tell him "No, these were normal kids and they were not in special ed" and he was crickets. But it still didn't change anything for him about what movies I liked and his thinking of me. He still thought they were in special ed and acted like the school I went to was a special needs school and when I told him lot of kids were in special ed, he told me they were just lazy because there is no way they can have 1/3 of the students in special ed. It was a small school I went to about 400 students and then shrunk to 350. It was in a small town so the high school was real small. My graduation class was about 42 students but I can't be arsed to get out my senior yearbook and count the seniors. My mom's graduation class was about 500. I can't imagine how long that must have took. But man I had never met anyone so judgmental in my life and jumping to negative conclusions and thinking of it as a fact.
And he was aware of his weird thinking but still did it.