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Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@Punxi I appreciate your reflective reply friend 🌺 I feel I'm the exception because my own parent mentally tortured me daily for years, that I should be grateful to even stand there without being hit, but with zero rights. If I showed a morsel of positivity about myself or anything, it was, Who do you think you are? This was for years, from a small age, so you believe it as fact you are less than others, and when you're visibly looked at with disgust each day, it rips your being to zero. And that does not magically get better as you enter adulthood..it is etched in me..
Punxi · F
@Baybreeze What you went through doesn’t just “fade”...I get it.
It forms the lens you were forced to see yourself through.
But that lens was built by someone else’s damage, not your truth.
Being taught you are “less than” is not the same as being less than.
It’s conditioning, repeated until it feels like fact.
Written by your hand as fact just now.
That you can recognize it, speak it, and still seek something better already separates you from it.
Thats fact.
What was etched into you can also be rewritten.
Slowly,...deliberately.
Not by denying the past, but by refusing to let it be the final authority on who you are.
It forms the lens you were forced to see yourself through.
But that lens was built by someone else’s damage, not your truth.
Being taught you are “less than” is not the same as being less than.
It’s conditioning, repeated until it feels like fact.
Written by your hand as fact just now.
That you can recognize it, speak it, and still seek something better already separates you from it.
Thats fact.
What was etched into you can also be rewritten.
Slowly,...deliberately.
Not by denying the past, but by refusing to let it be the final authority on who you are.