Hugs. I don't really have a more validating support network IRL in place yet.

I suspect I'm operating on a different system than others in my life, even if they're self-identified abuse survivors.

Because it's those same people telling me to reframe painful anecdotes into positive ones, denying that having an unpredictable and severely mentally ill parent has harmed them, telling me our parents were just old school.

PC has validated me a lot more.

Everytime I post "is welts bad? Is bruises bad?", it's because I constantly wonder if it's really that bad.