“But you’re so good with people!”

Trauma gives you social superpowers… and forbids you from using them.

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“I don’t know,” I say. “ It feels like therapy has only made me worse at making friends. I’m so conscious now of all the fucked-up things I used to do, and all the things I should never have let people do to me, and it just makes me want to hide from people until I’m whoever I’m supposed to…