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Originally Posted by tinyrabbit
I've realised something. I asked myself why I would have no feelings, why would that make sense? My answers: because it wasn't that bad, because I wasn't scared, I had no reason to be scared and I knew nothing really bad would happen.
I realised that doesn't sound like a child's perspective, but an adult's - perhaps imposed on me by my parents leaving no room for my feelings, hence the dissociation. Huh.
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That seems like a good insight.
I personally find it hard sometimes to really remember what it's like to be a child or identify with their non-adult capacities and feelings, and tend to insert what I would think/feel now on my child self.
One of my therapists told me once to just sit and watch young children for awhile sometime to get a better sense of what they are (aren't) capable of at that age.