I'm saying it was an anonymous story, lacking verifiable detail, spread in a public forum. Whether it's your personal truth or not is irrelevant to the fact that it's a rumor by definition.

Are you scared of definitions? Do you feel like dictionaries are written to gaslight you? Don't blow it out of proportion.

> A piece of unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth.

    - origin: me
    - spread by word of mouth: no

It is gaslighting to negate someone's experience.