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Studying generational trauma, healing out loud, and setting hard boundaries are the cards we’ve been dealt as Millennials.
My thoughts, my experiences, and the questions I still ponder as a late diagnosed Autistic with ADHD and Complex PTSD.
It makes sense to me *NOW* that people either say nothing or something for the same reason: Trauma.
We've all had variations of trauma from abuses no one acknowledged growing up. Some of it came from our own traumatized parents, who did awful things to get by or disconnect with their own lives. Some of us had it happen through what should have been safe visits to the neighbors, other relatives houses, or institutions like school.
Some people were were born into a traumatic life due to poverty, racism, discrimination, being an immigrant, religious institutions, generational traumas, disabilities at birth, non-hetero or non-binary identity, and other situations that automatically introduce abuse into daily living. All of the abuses lead to a person developing PTSD, often on top of having disabilities and genetically passed down health struggles.
So if we have all been through these things, witnessed our parents have the same conditions or struggles, and self medicate with harmful substances or abuses on others... Who the hell even are we as a…
