Piper admitted to me sometime last year that they cannot tell the difference between when

someone is addicted to something/abusive, and when someone is just using something without
being addicted/saying something negative or playfully hitting someone. This is because he believes
their mother is emotionally abusive towards him and that she has an alcohol addiction, which has
warped their view of how things like this work. I have consumed alcohol before and I have
mentioned this to Piper a few times, and Piper started to believe that I was addicted to alcohol
(which I am not in any way). This leads me to believe that the same thing follows for Piper believing I
am abusive towards him. I have playfully hit them a few times, and if I ever genuinely hurt him and
they have told me, I have sincerely apologised to him, an occurrence that happens in most casual
friendships as far as I am aware; and I have once or twice referred to someone who is annoying me
in the moment as “wanting to kill them”. I genuinely thought that we both knew that I was not
serious at all when making these claims, and they were meant as a joke. I understand it doesn’t
sound as tasteful on paper, but I can assure that at least in my eyes it was all in good fun. This is
what leads me to believe that Piper thinks I have been abusing him, and I’m sure you can see how
I’ve connected the dots, in that he turns casual (supervised) alcohol consumption into an alcohol
addiction because of their mother meaning that he may do the same with casual friendship bickering
in that they see it as abuse on his end.
This means that technically neither of us are lying, just that we both believe we are telling the truth,
whether it be a warped version of it due to trauma in childhood or not. I don’t think that Piper’s
intention was to hurt me, seeing as as far as I am aware it was not his idea to report my allegedly
concerning behaviour. And although it may not be in my power, I really do think that it’s in his best
interest that he seeks out some help in regards to his home situation, which I have been forced to
bring up in light of telling my side of the story.