Ive noticed "normal" people view me as odd (as a result of my childhood trauma), in two main ways.
First is when you spend years deconstructing yourself, down to your base layers, and trying to rebuild it in a way that starts to work again. A side effect is you can start to see all the ways regular "healthy" people mask and hide things from others, as well as themselves. Its like you have access to their inner most thoughts and feelings, even when they don't themselves.
The second and last one is that "normal" people cant understand why I dont just get over it. Let it go. Move on. Because for them, luckily, they have never had something so devastating happen to them, that they cant move past it. Or even if they do go through something terrible, they have always had a good foundation from their upbringing to be able to push off of, and hold onto during a storm. I have never had that.
So normal healthy people just view me as odd, and unrelatable. They can even get upset with me in ways I find puzzling.
Posted Apr 24, 2026, 8:19 PM UTC