@christie.heals: Honey girl, baby boy… there is nothing wrong with you. 😂😐 When you grow up in a dysfunctional home, you learn to read the room before you learn to read yourself. You figure out which version of you keeps everyone calm, avoids criticism, earns affection, or prevents punishment. Usually, it’s the happy, funny, helpful, easygoing version. That smile isn’t proof that you’re fake or a psychopath. It’s a mask that once helped keep you safe from disregulated adults. It took me 37 years to find people I felt safe enough around to fully be myself. Pay attention to who makes you feel like you have to perform. You’re allowed to take the mask off, and anyone who rejects the real you doesn’t deserve unlimited access to you. You’re not crazy. You survived a lot. You didn’t deserve it, and you’re allowed to be yourself now. A book that helped me understand this was Complex PTSD by Pete Walker. Because for some of us, childhood didn’t feel like childhood. It felt like being held emotionally hostage by our own caretakers. 🖤 #comedy #childhoodtrauma #cptsd #millennial #genz
Christie Hoffman
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Monday 14 September 2026 15:52:08 GMT
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SnapesAngel20 :
Me and my high masking traumatized AuDHD ass. Every. Time.
2026-09-14 18:01:49
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sharknado523 :
and then you have to go lie face-down on the floor for a half-hour and recover
2026-09-14 17:54:43
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user97113723921401 :
Idk if that is a CPTSD thing or an AuDHD thing but it’s a thing I do
2026-09-15 03:11:08
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Nugget :
When someone smiles at me in passing, I remind myself to hold my smile for a second or two after they pass 😂 just incase someone is looking and sees my immediate rbf
2026-09-14 21:55:18
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katol467 :
Me everyday
2026-09-17 00:05:05
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MzMaximus :
That door closes and my face literally MELTS.
2026-09-14 18:07:04
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Elizabeth Parker :
Omg I do this too! I feel a lot better knowing its not just me lmao.
2026-09-14 16:30:45
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MamaCeej :
I do this while shopping I feel INSANE. I do the polite smile and the high pitched "HEY HOW'S IT GOING? OH YEA MMHM" then I turn around and just like my face DROPS and I can feel myself looking insane 😅
2026-09-14 20:42:22
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Huntress :
Did this at the job one time and my boss popped out of nowhere and said “I saw that.” 😳😳😳
2026-09-14 21:18:47
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Erin Lunarena :
I'm just so tired from putting on the show
2026-09-14 19:57:52
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EAD :
I give myself whiplash... like a lot 🤣🤣🤣
2026-09-14 18:20:15
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Celia :
Me literraly after every social interaction
2026-09-14 18:00:56
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honest.rn.life🩺🐾🍷 :
Every time I am done at work 😂
2026-09-14 17:32:34
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helloIT404 :
it really is that fast though, like as soon as I'm not visible, it's like, alright, shields down Scotty
2026-09-14 20:05:02
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Arcadia :
sometimes its so quick it even catches yourself off guard lol
2026-09-14 20:24:14
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The_Big_Sad_Dad :
I've got RDF. Resting Disassociation Face
2026-09-14 17:49:39
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Sara ❤️ :
Absolutely scary how quick of a switch it is lol
2026-09-14 17:07:33
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Trevi :
I thought Iwas a lone. I do this all the time
2026-09-14 17:49:21
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LukaFiroth :
I mean, we don’t really have time to get into all that…
2026-09-14 20:38:10
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Jen 💙 :
sometimes it drops too fast and I wonder if they got a glimpse of me being a lunatic 🤣
2026-09-14 18:56:14
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Fit6975 :
honestly it's either this or bottling it up inside until you're only reaction is to explode.
2026-09-15 15:52:28
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An_Irish_person_in_the_UK :
One of the (many) reasons I stopped seeing family. If I have to bend myself into this heightened masking version of myself to be permitted to hang out with you, you don't accept me
2026-09-15 12:09:47
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Wine o'clock :
It's not that deep yet until you have to rub your jaws cos the person you were smiling at took too long to leave your facial muscles started to feel weird 😂😂😂😂
2026-09-15 04:58:05
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AnnaBanana :
I lost that ability with the death of my parents. I can't do this anymore.
2026-09-15 05:53:26
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Hexatonotron :
Working retail will do this to you too….
2026-09-14 22:19:46
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