CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]

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Cake day: September 6th, 2023

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  • So I have a psychotic disorder, so I sometimes experience things that didn’t really happen. This does not make what happened any less traumatic, but it does change how people treat my experience. If someone came to me saying what I’m preparing to say, I know I would try to be as validating of their trauma and try to help them as much as I could, but for some reason I just can’t extend the same treatment to myself. So I’ll put it here and throw myself on your mercy. Even if you can’t be validating, please be kind. I’m not trying to hurt anybody.

    CW: SA

    When I was younger, I had a hallucination that affected all of my senses that was of a woman SAing me. I guess that’s the whole story. I used to have more frequent, vivid, and senseful(?) hallucinations than I do now, before I started taking medication. I’ve been terrified of the dark ever since, and still hear her voice in my head from time to time. I feel like I can’t move on in part because I can’t escape her and in part because I feel like its unreality invalidates every feeling I’ve had about it. I try not to invade spaces where people talk about this kind of trauma, because I do understand there is a big difference between what happened to me and what happened to them. Mine was a fabrication, an image of something; while theirs is real, and many of them have physical consequences of that. I just want somebody to tell me it’s okay to feel afraid and hurt and a little sick about it. I need to move on… somehow.