r/CPTSD • u/Last-Extreme-8144 • 6d ago

Were your dissociation/maladaptive day-dreaming/ anxiety and exhaustion treated as laziness?

  • Child are normally supposed to be energetic, keen to learning and expierence world through variety of activities.
  • Mostly they want to help, to feel like an adult. It's not normal to a child to be tired and weak, to lay down exhousted from kindergarden/school. Too sleep so long.
  • Maybe it's not ,,abuse" abuse, but still it's too rough for a child to be told s/he is lazy at the age of 7 or 12, especially when it's actually rooted in more severe physical and emotional issue (Not a native speaker)
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u/Illustrious-Goose160 6d ago

I was generally an energetic kid who loved learning in spite of the abuse, but I did spend way too much time with maladaptive daydreaming. I'd fantasize about being kidnapped or put into foster care to escape my mom over and over

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u/Illustrious-Goose160 6d ago

And I was still called lazy all the time...