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person: you’re pretty cool!

me: oh my god prepare to be very disappointed

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congratulations on getting through the day even if it was really, really hard. you’re doing great.

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your trauma is valid even if you can’t remember it clearly or at all.

your trauma is valid even if you doubt it sometimes.

your trauma is valid even if other people denied it was happening.

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Nobody's gonna save us. But we have each other and that'll have to be enough.

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“I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.���

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

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#traumacore #ventcore #trauma #vent #vent blog #personal vent #childhood trauma #traumacope #csa #csa vent #csa survivor #actually traumatized

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Here’s permission to do that one thing you’ve always wanted to do because you thought it would be nice or fun but never did because you suck at doing nice things for yourself. Go do it. You deserve it.

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It's okay to dislike being touched. It does not matter if they're your parents, siblings, friends, caretakers, family members, or anyone else. You are allowed to uphold your boundaries.

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#traumacore #ventcore #trauma #vent #vent blog #personal vent #traumacope #csa #csa vent #trauma vent

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French dress, 1866-67, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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~What happened?????~