Having A Traumatic Childhood Means You Cannot Talk Even Objectively About Your Basic Foundational Experiences

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

watercolor aftermath

The Knight of the Flowers, 1894, by Georges Rochegrosse. Detail and photo by Paul Perrin. Edit.

floating duck 🍑⁣

cat distribution system

my prologue to this extra :)

Macedonian woman, North Macedonia, by Bojan Petkovski