• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    This is getting a lot of pooh-poohing, but I get what they mean. Before I was diagnosed in my late teens I would come home after school, barely functional, and just shut down until bed time because I didn’t know what was happening wasn’t normal or how to deal with it. There is a difference between relaxing and sitting in an overstimulated, exhausted pile, even if they look similar from the outside.

    • fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      As someone diagnosed with dissociation I completely agree.

      People acting like dissociation doesn’t exist like maybe this woman actually does dissociate, you don’t know better than her.