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After summarizing my life story and explaining that I didn’t really have any trauma, my therapist looked at his notes for a moment and told me he figured out the problem: I didn’t know what trauma was.
It comes with the territory of your needs and concerns are minimized all your life.
Lemme just settle into the very back corner of the room with a view of an entrance so i know nobody is behind me while i think about this…
Abused probrally wouldn’t be the right word, I mean yes I do have severe childhood trauma but I wouldn’t say I was abused.
Sure, I watched her try to kill my dad, and I feared she would kill me during the beatings, but I wouldn’t call it “abuse”.
That’s only slightly sarcastic; my brain tells me the same thing yours does.
For me it was just that my mothet was completely emotionally absent and my father was physically not absent. That and being constantly told I have no future by just about everyone.
So… neglect. While not abuse, still an impactful form of maltreatment.
I know this is entirely semantics, but neglect is a form of abuse.
If someone had roughly similar experiences I would respect them if they called it abuse, thats just not how I define it for myself.
Nuts to that! You have a future that I’m very keen on hearing about!
Well they were partially correct, I do have a future they just arent a part of it :3
Are you my long lost twin?
Mayhaps :3
It’s funny that. Everything is normal until you learn it isn’t.
Hahahaha
Haha
Ha
Yep
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I wouldn’t say normal, still I also wouldn’t say abused.
Sorry, gate kept
i was not abused as a child ~ ~ ~
Hm 🤔
What’s a CPS?
Probably Child Protection Service.
One of wolf growling from the corner, the other is licking itself.
