sensory issues + chronic pain
as someone who’s mum refused to cut off tags from my clothing when I was younger, because she didn’t want me ‘having a difficult time in life’ - yeah thanks :/
literally all it did was just make years of my life more uncomfortable and actively teach me to ignore bodily sensations and signals as ‘not important’
anyway guess who spent years thinking that there was a ‘normal amount of pain to constantly be in’!
(Because surprise surprise, when you teach a kid that their complaints around something as small as itchy clothing tags are to be ignored because ‘no one else feels like that’ - you’ll be surprised how many other things can get lumped into the same box of ‘everyone has this, I’m just weird/weak, and I can’t complain or ever mention it’)



















