You know the autistic / transfem / traumatised (not sure which exactly) thing where someone confronts you about how you’ve caused harm and you just instantly believe them and apologise and apologise and apologise.

| Then afterwards when you regain rationality you realise that it wasn’t your fault, or it wasn’t a big deal. But you’ve already Pled Guilty and you can’t take that back. You’ve already permanently lost social status. You can’t relitigate closed matters.

Is there a word for that?

I couldn’t find one, so I’m coining the term “guilt fawning” to refer to this.