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      I realize a lot of people don’t like to be alone with their thoughts. I’m fine. Usually there’s a song playing if I’m not distracted, or I’m looking to the future to make plans.

      Others, I tend to find, are far more in tune with their subconscious which appears to be saying nasty things to them the moment they’re alone.

      I had a bad childhood (like many), but I think my coping mechanism was to escape to fantasy (later books, games, art), and as a result I think I trained myself to not spend too long listening to my feelings. It probably is disassociation, but I don’t see it as a bad baseline to have.

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          It’s a miracle any of us are functioning at all. Sometimes my mum tells me how she feels bad for the childhood that we had growing up, but I usually tell her that: since we didn’t die, she did a good job; and since we’re healthy working adults, she did a great job.

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      Yes. But Apathy is actually Disassociation. It’s basically you stop feeling things to survive the Bad Things.