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  • LegionEris [she/her]@feddit.nlM
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    11 months ago

    You’re a truama therapist, then manage multiple neurodiversity communities in your spare time? You give a lot.

    I also have yet another female-identifying client that may have ADHD, bringing the total to 6. I swear, we flock together.

    I think neurodivergent people in general do. I have a sixth sense for picking out people with truama. If I really immediately click with someone, if I inherently understand and get along someone, they probably had some amount or degree of fucked up childhood. My other best friend is so because we are the two at work with CPTSD. There are a few people with PTSD, but we understand each other on a level neither of us gets from other people.

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      11 months ago

      Thank you, I really try. My first career was in legal compliance in the mortgage industry, and it was such a wrong fit. I hated it and felt like I was doing nothing with my life. Ever since I switched careers, I have loved every minute of it. Found my calling and sticking with it, which sometimes means doing more than just providing therapy.

      I have absolutely noticed that people with CPTSD flock together, and it makes so much sense. Another trauma survivor knows what it’s like to be hyper-vigilant or have intrusive memories, just like you said. They also understandably tend to use gallows humor that people with great childhoods may not understand.