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When You're the 'High-Functioning' Traumatized Kid With Complex PTSD
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You know, it is daunting when the cursor just blinks on a blank page. It blinks slower than my heartbeat and ticks away slower than the time passing on the clock sitting near my bed.
The cursor is only aggravating because I have a lot of trauma to share and I want to explain what happened in order to help at least one other person. I didn’t know that I “had trauma” or that I was a “trauma survivor” until I was about 19 or 20 years old.
I didn’t know such things because I was raised in an environment where everything was “hush-hush” and everything “was fine.” No one knew the real home-life of Alex in middle school and high school because I was a straight-A student, an elite athlete, on student council and volunteering 20 hours per week.
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