I was going to discontinue this blog, hence the inactivity. I originally started this blog after setting up the original one only to discover I had fat-fingered the website! It was intended to be “thedandelionchronicles” only it turned out to be “thedandelionchromicles.” I must admit I laughed when I realized my mistake (Good help is… Continue reading Side Note
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What Does It Mean When Parents Abuse Their Children?
Part 1: I suppose an alternate title could be what would it mean for me to acknowledge my parents’ role in my abuse. And is this one of the core issues for me? There are two points of view in this: the child’s and the adult looking back. But first a much need history lesson,… Continue reading What Does It Mean When Parents Abuse Their Children?
Wanting to feel safe
PT 3 Things remained the status quo for a number of years. I eventually bought a house in the “big city’” which I felt safe as far as needing any kind of emergency services should the need arise. If I ever need the police or fire department, they were nearby. I actually felt safer in… Continue reading Wanting to feel safe
Wanting to Feel Safe
Pt 2 While I was living in this small town, I was seeing this guy (more on this later), he was a local truck driver. What ended up happening was a passenger vehicle cut him off and he avoided the accident but ended up dying in the ensuing accident. It was a horrible accident. His… Continue reading Wanting to Feel Safe
Wanting to Feel Safe
I was born in the Midwest. I initially went to a college nearby, a little more than an hour from the town I was born in. I later transferred to a college in a nearby state (I’ll write about that whole affair later). It was an 8 hour drive from the college to my parents’… Continue reading Wanting to Feel Safe
The Body and MY Dissociation: how it worked for me and what I’ve learned.
I was working in a place where I was lifting 65 lbs cases of water bottles. The weight itself wasn’t an issue, but the awkward size of the case was. I ended up with a back injury which showed up on the x-ray machine during the worker’s comp case. At any rate, I went to… Continue reading The Body and MY Dissociation: how it worked for me and what I’ve learned.
The Body and Dissociation
One of the things I’d read about (again, before, the internet!) was how the body could change depending on which alter was out, or in control. One alter could have a particular food allergy for example, while no other alters had that issue. I was not aware of how dissociation affected me and my body… Continue reading The Body and Dissociation
The Journey of Acceptance
The journey of acceptance that there were others around me was not a short one nor an easy one. There was no widespread internet to look things up, no resources to look for and no one like me to talk to. I knew I wasn’t unique, there was just no one I knew who was… Continue reading The Journey of Acceptance
It took more than 20 years to discover why I was losing time and the results shocked me.
I continued to lose time during my time in college and beyond. Most of time I had no idea it had happened until I would look back and discover these blank spots of varying times and not knowing what happened during these “blank spots.” I had this inclination something wasn’t right but had no idea… Continue reading It took more than 20 years to discover why I was losing time and the results shocked me.
I had no idea losing time wasn’t normal
As a person in high school, acquaintances would get together and at times reminisce of something that happened in the past. “Do you remember when…?” Inevitably, my answer was always no. I didn’t remember the particular incident being described. It seemed everyone else remembered the event except for me. I just hated this game, especially… Continue reading I had no idea losing time wasn’t normal