nightmare in disguise

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
ptsdeer
ptsdeer

I think there is a very specific bitterness and pain that accompanies the realisation and reluctant acceptance that you lost your childhood and adolescence to trauma and mental illness, and it's something that people can't appreciate unless they've lived it too. Well meaning but utterly clueless people my age tell me "well I can't believe that I'm this age either!" and people older than me say things like "we all feel like we didn't make the best of our youth!" but I know that it isn't the same .

there is a deep longing in me for the safety of an innocent childhood, or the carefree turmoil of a rebellious adolescence that can never be realised . theres a deep sense that im a little girl or an unruly teenager . theres a reluctance , or inability, to accept that im an adult, that life didnt stop then , that the world didnt wait for me, time kept going and it left me behind.

how can I already be an adult when i never had the chance to be a child?

bean-pd
bean-pd

you know when you’re in like mental limbo like when you’re in between certain phases and you can’t exactly pinpoint how you are at the moment. you’re not exactly manic but not depressed and not calm and “normal” yet also not sad and empty. you’re just kinda…..existing. it doesn’t feel right but you can’t really pinpoint what’s wrong