if your eyeballs are seeing this, it can only mean the emotionally-fried, burnt out, neurodivergent empath in me ✨instantly✨ recognized the emotionally-fried, burnt out, neurodivergent empath in you...and I just gotta say—what a terrible fucking time to be a person who feels literally everything so fucking deeply. Isn’t it??
CPTSD is the moment you recognize you have been waiting your entire adult life for permission. Permission to take up space. To have needs. To say no. To be angry. To rest without earning the rest first. To exist without justifying the existence. You kept waiting for someone with authority to grant it. Someone who knew the original people who revoked it. Someone who could officially reinstate what was taken. (1/2)