You know you're not okay, but turning that feeling into a useful request can be impossible. 'I need help' is as far as the words go, while questions about what kind of help or what happened leave you even more stuck.
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
"If you needed something, you would've just said so."
The distress signal is blaring internally, but the wire connecting it to my mouth has been cut. I literally can't find the words.
"You seem angry or shut down. Are you mad at me?"
I'm not mad, I'm drowning. The effort to stay afloat is taking up all my processing power, leaving none for speech.
"You're not being clear. What do you actually want?"
My brain feels like a corrupted file. I know the information is in there, but I can’t access it or translate it into a language we both understand.
"You seem totally fine, just a little quiet."
This quiet is the sound of my brain frantically searching for an emergency exit script, but all the pages are blank.
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