#even other kids who had habits of biting were grossed out by how much/deep/the locations of how/where i did it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sideblogformentalhealtshit · 2 months ago

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The most ??? experience is when you struggle your whole life with something you don't know the name of and nobody else does it and you feel all weird and outcast and Othered by it, and then you find out what it's called and start finding out about other people's experiences with it... only to find out that, compared to them, what you have is actually mild in comparison. So then it's like. You're too weird for "normal" people but too normal to feel like you really fit in&belong with the more "weird" ones.

#personal #arfid #avoidant restrictive food intake disorder #autism #bfrbs #body focused repetitive behaviours #dermatophagia #<- specifically abt that #cus like whole life i've felt disgusting and gross and like i don't fit cus i bite my fingers&nails so much #even other kids who had habits of biting were grossed out by how much/deep/the locations of how/where i did it #and then i found out Wow this thing has a word!#oh everybody else has it way worse #and then it completely threw off my own understanding of the Norm and now i barely feel like i have a problem w it #cus i only have to wear 1-2 bandages like every 2 months so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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