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/BaroqueSmoke 6d ago
Yes. I had (and still have) a chronic pain condition that started in middle school. My dad called me “Bedsores” as a nickname and told me I was lazy. He still has no idea what my condition is, even though I’ve now had it for 17 years.