Systember '25 | Day 13: Past
"History repeats like a hall full of mirrors. Grow gold and flowers in the cracks. You lost your mind and found it."
We have memory loss due to our trauma, but because our situation at home is beginning to improve, sometimes things will come back in flashes. Like flashbacks, but positive.
If I had to explain dissociative amnesia to someone unfamilar with it, I'd say it's like locking a folder on your laptop and forgetting the password. The memories are still there, you just don't have access.
For better or for worse, a lot of our childhood was spent online. While we won't get into our unrestricted-Internet-access trauma here, we're glad to have grown up with the media we did (even if some of it is "cringe".)
Depicted: a diary page, old MacOS wallpaper, neon glowstick bracelets, Royale High (Roblox game), scene from Spirited Away, various plastic beads and trinkets.
The number in the top right corner (300.15) is the DSM-5 diagnostic code for other specified dissociative disorder.
ASCII art is recycled from assets used in a previous animation.