Someone please explain the neurodivergent experience of feeling like I was mentally older than my peers as a child and now feel mentally younger now as an adult….
If you were a fish at an aquarium, I'd read your entire little information plaque and stand there way too long watching you swim around so you'd know you were my favorite.
“But you survived” NO I disassociate, like A LOT. My heart drops when someone raises their voice. I shut down very easily. And I'm far too observant. I always feel like a burden. I isolate often. But yeah, sure, I guess I survived.
people who don't have cats are always like "oh but they are so independent and unattached" okay then why is my cat trying to break down my bathroom door when i'm in the shower