#didnt realize my pet oc rn is an alt girl with a big hammer who flees town after a disastrous breakup and remains haunted by it

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I am like actually very proud of having moved on to the point where getting triggered by something can be funny in hindsight. like there is this knee-jerk response I held for a long time of "thing reminds me of bad, reflects the attitutudes which enabled my traumatization, is bad" and now I'm 6 months away from 30 able to recognize that perhaps I Just Have Baggage and can observe being triggered at get through it, perhaps while even still enjoying the thing that accidentally punched me in the face, and appreciating what that face punch taught me