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5,295 likes, 69 comments - autistic.mykie on December 25, 2025: "A lot of Autistic people don’t recognize CPTSD in themselves because it didn’t look like what they were taught trauma “should” look like.
quiet survival is still survival.
adaptation under pressure still leaves marks.
nothing here needs to be justified to be real.
you don’t need to explain your pain better for it to count.
you don’t need to perform healing for it to be happening.
this is for the people who learned to disappear, comply, or over-function to stay safe — and were then told they were fine.
you weren’t fine.
you were coping.".