I was hardly 8 when my mom first began labelling me as “Emotional.”
So, I was 8 years old when I started to become hyper aware of my emotions – intellectualizing them, considering my thought process behind said intellectualization.
I had to know my feelings were valid in order to express them, because she had to listen to me if my feelings were valid!
lol.
Studies show that if a child’s emotions are consistently invalidated, they learn to become invisible – They keep themselves small, burying their needs and passions to avoid further invalidation.
There’s an obscene amount of us, our parents included, who suffered emotional neglect but didn’t have the language for it.
Emotional neglect? Don’t be a little bitch. You’re fine.
From the outside, I’ve had a relatively privileged life.
My parents had good jobs, a nice house. I always had the newest trendiest everything and went on annual holidays.
A “happy” looking nuclear family – because the kids had learned to suck it up.
All in the name of FAMILY.
MEGA FEELS 