I have a child who puts extremely bizarre spins on things, and sorting out "child is saying some nonsense again" from "there is a real problem" is so, so hard. So many phone calls to people saying "R said something that I couldn't quite understand about X, could you clarify for me because I couldn't figure it out from their explanation", etc.

I deal with it from my kid because they are my kid but wow, all my sympathy dealing with it in a spouse because: DAMN