It doesn't make you special that bad things happened to you. Pretty much everyone has had various "little t" traumas which have affected them, even if they don't qualify for any kind of trauma-related diagnosis. I was in the same boat...I used to dissociate in session, and I also thought I was going to sound like I was making things seem worse than they were. It turns out that although I never experienced life-threatening type trauma, I did experience some emotional abuse which had contributed to my mild dissociative symptoms.

I would say what is more special than whatever happened to a person is how much motivation they have to recover, grow, and attain their full potential as a person. When I look around at the world I see so many emotionally damaged people limping through life, and so few with the desire to work through whatever is holding them back.