Invalidation often comes from yourself more than anyone else. Yet validation is so hard to give yourself. Oftentimes I find myself needing to relate to every traumatic song I hear, every traumatic movie I watch, every traumatic book I read. Media has become the easiest way to fulfill the hole the lack of validation causes, and yet every time I can't relate as deeply to something as other people, that validation is gone again.
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8-25-2023
In honor of Family Lime 2.0. I heavily relate to the song Family Line, however Winner is about an experience I haven't had. So this is also in honor of being able to enjoy something I can't relate to because it's a good song that deserves to be enjoyed, and it doesn't make my trauma any less valid just because I didn't leave home or cut contact with my mom.
YOU ARE READING
The Knife
PoetryShort story poem thing, lol. Idk, 330 words. Literally. I checked. So just read it. If you don't like it... you wasted like 2 minutes. I did mention stabbing someone, so like... If you're into that it's there... *** Okay, so cuz I made this last yea...
