what were you guys like as younger teenagers? (tw self harm stuff)

Quite insufferable. My hallucinations (auditory and tactile) and delusions tend to be triggered by overstimulation, and so I experienced them quite a lot at school. People thought I was just being edgy for attention, and frankly, that's better than them thinking it was real.

Also, I hadn't learned the first thing about social skills, and didn't bother to mask at all and had no dress sense or any sense of popular culture. I was able to make enemies for life with just one stupid comment. When a girl finally broke up with a boy she constantly complained about, I genuinely thought I was being helpful when I said "well you hated him anyway, and it's not like most relationships last when you are 15."

Even worse, I had fleas from my older siblings and father who have even worse personality disorder symptoms than I do (but undiagnosed).

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