Your Nervous System Was Surviving. Not Broken.

追加: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]I remember reading that children who are abused can look like they have autism because they aren't socialized in a way that matches their developmental years.

[00:00:11]Like all the time and energy you should have been spending learning, uh socializing with other children, getting to know yourself, learning how to regulate your own emotions, you spent surviving. Like defending yourself, shutting down, fighting for your life physically, emotionally, psychologically.

[00:00:30]All the time you should have been learning how to become, learning how to embody yourself, you spent on the defense. And it's really sad to think about because the more I do research, the more I learn, I'm realizing that a lot of people aren't mentally uh ill. A lot of us don't have actual diagnoses, but it's more so certain skills and behaviors that are learned from having to survive. You know what I mean? Like being stunted in your social skills or being too scared to like just be yourself or speak up in a group, that can easily look like autism. That can easily look like some sort of bipolar disorder or like some sort of disorder when in all actuality you're perfectly healthy, you just didn't get the energy and investment in those areas that you really needed.