Yes. I've always felt something like a phantom limb in the bottom area. My nerves remembered what was there and expected it to be there. That mismatch eventually spun into ocd. Being told that I didn't feel pain or numbness, when I knew that I did, didn't help either. I was told over and over that "you're a normal girl, nothing is wrong with you." my scars were explained as "correcting a birth defect" or "a hernia repair."

It was a lot of small things like that. I felt like I was going crazy. I knew that my experience was real, but how did that fit in with adults telling me that i was a liar?

And having doctors either deliberately lie to me as an adult, or just miss it out of negligence, didn't help things any.