Kina Wolfenstein
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Kai Dawnborn :
I work in a grocery store. I don't interact often with customers, I'm usually in the back of my department, but sometimes when I go out into the store proper, someone will stop and say something to me that tells me that they know me. I've been at this store 3.5 years, of course the regulars should know me, but. It baffles me that they do. I have a customer I've said maybe five words to but he's my favorite customer because I overheard him once telling the person he was with, "Oh there's the baker! I always love her hair." (I frequently change my hair color, always bright unnatural colors.) It meant so much to me that he recognized me and chose to make note of me to someone else. It always brightens my day when I see him shopping, because I know at least that day someone has seen me. It gets even crazier when people recognize me outside of the store, without the context of my uniform and that environment. I am a unique enough entity that the people in my town can approach me and say "Hey you're the baker at [store]!" That is insane to me. Which is funny because I've definitely recognized other people in various different places, why shouldn't they recognize me? Especially with the hair, and I have tattoos too. I dunno man. Crazy to be perceived by real people.
2026-10-21 08:39:31
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Emili Borkowski :
yeah I've gotten to the point where I don't want to be perceived, it makes me uncomfortable. yes I now have agoraphobia 😭
2026-08-29 16:11:18
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phoebe. :
When I was a teenager I described this to a therapist as feeling like I was everyone's imaginary friend.
2026-08-29 15:48:05
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Rebecca 🤍 :
Ma’am… how do you know everything about me and how my brain works?
2026-10-21 14:35:32
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OakenFolk :
almost daily a wave of "feeling unloved" hits me- my heart beats fast, impending doom rolls in and I usually realize Ive been staring ,wide eyed , only when the SNAP! back to reality happens ... (dxed with cptsd from abuse/neglect and I know from memory how my mother treated my baby brother shutting him in a closet with lights off for hours while he cried in his crib)
2026-10-21 04:54:59
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Croxiin :
Finding out that my anxious avoidance attachment likely developed in my first 18 months of life made me have a breakdown. It reminded me of that experiment where there was a “mother” who would care for a baby with no expressions as part of the study. It’s heartbreaking and I cried for so many people and babies in that moment.
2026-10-21 02:15:17
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kelly :
im always shocked when people recognize me. even if ive known them decades, and I look the same. my kindergarten teacher recognized me 30 years later, and I still cant wrap my head around being recognized by others. such a weird feeling.
2026-08-29 16:14:29
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i wish i could be put into a machine where i could view my childhood from a 3rd person pov and see how it was objectively from pre birth onwards
2026-08-29 19:10:58
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parrotprincess1 :
I think all of my emotional needs were met as an infant by both my parents but as I aged and my emotions became more complex (and less “acceptable”) they both disengaged to a large extent. By the time I was a teenager the range of emotions that were tolerated from me became very narrow. Anything outside that (frustration, loneliness, fear, anger, disappointment) was at best ignored, at worst actively punished.
2026-08-29 15:02:00
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יעלית המושלמת :
Maladaptive daydreaming
2026-08-29 21:14:10
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Nic :
I feel like a ghost anywhere I go and I get surprised when anyone even notices I’m alive
2026-08-29 23:19:54
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Madison Claire :
I’m very good at seeing other people and caretaking for them, but the second someone starts asking about me or trying to get past my surface layer, it creates a sense of panic and overwhelm for me. And I’ve joked that it’s because “oh no someone acknowledged that I’m real” because normally I’m used to serving, knowing, and treating others. I have very little experience receiving or being recognized for who I am outside of the role I tend to play for others. But also I was physically abused so sometimes being seen especially if I’m not doing well to me is associated with being physically harmed.
2026-08-29 14:32:16
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Hot dog :
I mean in a way it is a murder
2026-08-30 11:51:59
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Aya irl istg :
I’ve always said I feel like I don’t exist as a real person 😭
2026-08-31 18:03:37
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whisperingvelvetnotes :
Parents erase their children’s experience and then wonder why they disappear as adults
2026-08-30 06:42:32
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Kristen Bradseth :
I'm learning so much about myself, or making sense of my experience. It's pretty heartbreaking.
2026-08-29 14:55:56
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Kimbo Slice :
This makes me feel seen. The only way I’ve been able to describe it is that I wasn’t a person until I moved away from my family. 10 years later I’ve fully disconnected from my them and I think I’m finally starting to see glimpses of who I really am.
2026-09-23 22:50:19
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Katina𝟏𝟑⸆⸉ :
People mentioning they talked about me with someone or something of that nature it freaks me out cause I can’t wrap my head around people remembering I exist when I’m not in front of them. It genuinely surprises me.
2026-08-30 12:16:13
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Maggie 🍉 :
I frequently felt as a child that I was like a lamp or an endtable. Replaceable, insignificant, and while occasionally useful, ultimately nobody cared that I was there or not.
2026-08-29 19:45:43
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SnowCake Studios :
I was emotionally neglected and then violently abused my entire childhood so I had to form people in my brain who could meet those emotional needs instead of any of the adults in our life
2026-08-29 19:51:38
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🪩 :
how do you even heal from this :( i feel like i have mapped out where every single one of my smyptoms come from and not what... it just never gets any better
2026-08-29 16:33:23
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CrystalLynn :
My therapist when I was 20 asked me “Where did you get your nurturing?” I just stared at her and blinked.
2026-08-29 16:08:35
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Ally :
I was playing with my then 1 year old once, we were giggling together and just having a great time, my dad had been watching us and suddenly said "I don't remember your mother ever playing with you like that." Hearing that from him broke something in me, I already knew by that point that she'd emotionally neglected me for most of my childhood but the thought of little baby me never even getting to play and have fun with her mummy just destroyed me. My only comfort is that my daughter will never have to feel the way I do
2026-09-06 12:34:17
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Indigo D :
I think it's why I bond with animals so easily where I don't with people. The animals in my childhood acknowledged and interacted with me. I felt like I belonged in their world, not in the human one.
2026-09-01 03:54:31
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M :
I dissociated like 5 times while watching this
2026-08-30 20:12:13
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