Speak to me in English, French or other languages you know but not & nvr in the Malay/Indo language which triggers my cptsd🙏 #boundaries matter, thx
Born in Indonesia, but I’ll never forget where my Malaysian roots are. I keep my Malaysian Malay accent without adopting the Indonesian speech I associate with my abusers. #CPTSD As the jerebu worsens, I’m concerned for everyone affected. Happy National Day, Malaysia 🇲🇾✨
the standard indonesian patriarchal script: if you aren't turning your private partnership into a loud, suffocating societal obligation by age 25, you are fundamentally failing
Ppl say personality & alignment is the key indicator to date any man or potential future husband yet for me if he speaks the language which ive been mistreated & abused in, its still a big no for me, this is why i'm NOT & never interested in Indonesian/Malay men. #CPTSD#trauma
in the west a couple can literally get married at a local registry/ward office in casual outfits and celebrate with a group buffet for their closest ppl. meanwhile indonesian society treats anything less than a bankrupting stadium-sized production as family PR mgmt.
Don’t call yourself a cosmopolite or “diversity-aware” while labeling people as “my [passport] friend.”
That behavior turns human connection into sth adjacent to govt border check where identity is reduced to paperwork, not personhood.
I detest birthdays — your “hbd” isn’t kindness, it’s ego, une petite performance pour vous sentir bien. Vous célébrez juste le fait que j’ai été jetée au monde dans un pays traumatisant — l’Indonésie where i feel so unsafe & constantly fear my own life. #cptsd
Even if you speak English & other languages at a native level, are racially mixed, or have international friends—that doesn’t cancel out the habit of reducing sb to a passport or govt paperwork so that’s still a narrow way of getting to know ppl
For everyone rushing to say I need therapy or to seek psychiatric help—no. This reaction isn’t abnormal, it’s proportionate.
What is off is wrapping your ego in pseudo-concern and calling it care.
As long as im still trapped in indonesia no i wont heal in the same enviroment, aucune guérison possible — pas dans l’environnement même qui m’a brisée, encore et encore. #CPTSD#trauma
As long as im still trapped in indonesia no i wont heal in the same enviroment, aucune guérison possible — pas dans l’environnement même qui m’a brisée, encore et encore. #CPTSD#trauma
@GayleB46248 @deadman1782021 Good intentions aside, it’s actually not that hard to just validate what someone feels without turning it into a whole theory about the mind.