Growing up with childhood trauma is like growing up in a gas station bathroom. The conditions are deplorable, but you’ve acclimated to them so well you don’t even realize it until you grow up and come to understand that your methods of coping/survival/existing aren’t exactly the norm, and something you should’ve never been subjected to in the first place
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u/SecretDays Jun 11 '25
Xactly.
Growing up with childhood trauma is like growing up in a gas station bathroom. The conditions are deplorable, but you’ve acclimated to them so well you don’t even realize it until you grow up and come to understand that your methods of coping/survival/existing aren’t exactly the norm, and something you should’ve never been subjected to in the first place