Anyone had to take a break from reading something because it reminded them too much of their childhood?
I remember being terrified every time I had to complete a task for my parents involving strangers (usually shopkeepers) because I would practice what I was going to say but there would always be something that went off-script. They wouldn’t have the thing but would send me to some other person who might, or the price would be wrong or there would be a buy one get one free deal and I would have to explain why I had bought two home.
Anyway on a recommendation I started reading a story about a girl who was an unsanctioned archmage and had to hide the fact, I was not expecting the protagonist to have mild ASD and unlock a bunch of childhood memories every other chapter.
Story is Archmage Coefficient if you are curious, although I’m only at ch. 7 so I can’t promise anything about later chapters.
We do. I think a stronger innate understanding of the relationships involved makes it a lower-stress affair.
“I’ll do my best. It might work out, it might not… but even if I fuck it up and my mom is annoyed, I think that’s ok, because I can navigate my mother being annoyed effectively”
Yep. I read the over concern as a stress reaction to trying to please an emotionally abusive parent – which also works with an nt child.
“I will do my best to make this work out an even if it goes perfectly my parent may still find a reason to meltdown.”