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dandy_kulomin

Does anyone else constantly feel like their environment is hostile to their true self?

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I am not diagnosed, but I identify heavily with quite a few autistic and adhd traits.

I am currently doing somatic trauma therapy and this subject came up that I constantly feel like my environment is hostile to me. I feel it as a sort of simmering anxiety.

When I talked about this with the therapist, she seemed to suggest there is a way to not feel this way. But to be honest, I am not sure. Most things I have learned about other humans and society is that I can only be myself among very specific individuals and being a "productive" member of society and being myself are fundamentally at odds.

What are your thoughts to this? Has anyone conquered this feeling?

Posted May 12, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

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