I want you to consider the fact that these people have gone unchecked for decades. It is more than possible that their brain-waves and thinking is what actually interfered with me when I was just eighteen.
It could have been their notion, their idea, their assessment, their conclusion that made its way into my thinking rather than the other way around.
You need, and they need to consider, be more careful, and remove themselves. They know not the possible and probable harm that could happen just by thinking around me.