All I could do in response to this bit of the conversation was rub the back of my own head. It didn't give me any additional information.

I have a fairly large bump on the back of my skull. A phrenologist would probably say I'm destined to be a crazy old cat-person....

I need word help-- something similar in meaning to slighted or "put off"/dismissed. Basically when someone feels as if they're being ignored, even if they're really not. (Sort of like my mother...)

I know there's a word, but at the moment, it's utterly escaping me. I swear, my brain has become a sieve.

alienated?

Patronised?

there's also thesaurus.com

affront, blink at, brush off, chill, contemn, cool*, cut*, despise, discount, disdain, disparage, disregard, fail, flout, forget, give the brush, give the cold shoulder to, ignore, make light of, neglect, not give time of day, omit, overlook, pooh-pooh, reject, scoff, scorn, show disrespect, shrug off, skip, slur, sneeze at, snub, treat with contempt, turn deaf ear to, upstage

thesaurus.reference.com sez:

affront, blink at, brush off, chill, contemn, cool*, cut*, despise, discount, disdain, disparage, disregard, fail, flout, forget, give the brush, give the cold shoulder to, ignore, make light of, neglect, not give time of day, omit, overlook, pooh-pooh, reject, scoff, scorn, show disrespect, shrug off, skip, slur, sneeze at, snub, treat with contempt, turn deaf ear to, upstage

Patronized is close to what I'm looking for. Man, I hate, hate, HATE this feeling. Words are usually at my disposal, but every now and again, I need one and it just utterly escapes me.

there's also thesaurus.com

Crap. I missed beating Laga by one second.

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Words are usually at my disposal, but every now and again, I need one and it just utterly escapes me.

There's a word for that feeling but I can't remember what it is.