When I had a Baby Reindeer experience, I resolved to find my stalker

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It began with an anonymous Twitter account posting about me and tagging my colleagues. Who from my past – exes, housemates, former colleagues – might bear this kind of grudge?

The first I knew something was wrong was a 6.37pm email from a colleague: “Just got this weird tweet.”

The fear that springs from such hostility is obvious. It’s deeply unnerving to know that someone out there wants to hurt you, and it sets your mind racing. What do they want? Where might they next appear? How far might they take it? They clearly knew where I worked, so it was easy to slip into feelings of paranoia as I stepped outside into the dark at the end of the day.

From the outside, it’s easy to imagine how one might shut down this kind of hostility. But the advice I kept finding was to ignore the cyberstalker, whose goal is to get a reaction. Which creates a horrible feeling of powerlessness.

 

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