“Please send clinical research studies to prove your lived experiences are real” 😮‍💨

I shared how I acquired anxiety (social anxiety) recently.

Someone DMed me, asking I “send research” papers proving my lived experiences “that anxiety can be acquired”.

This is my LIVED EXPERIENCE:

I didn’t have this anxiety growing up.

Then people treated me bad.

Next I became anxious.

I wasn’t always like that.

I lived it.

I can clearly remember who I was before developing social anxiety, what it was like when I had social anxiety, and what I am like now that it’s not a thing for me anymore (after years of trauma and shadow work).

There may or may not be research to back up what I experienced…

I honestly don’t care if the research backs it up or not.

My anxiety was a trauma response.

They also went off saying “anxiety isn’t Neurodivergence”…

Excuse me but, the anxiety I had influenced how I experienced the world… and how I communicated and engaged with people.

It definitely was Neurodivergence.

Lived experiences need to be taken more serious. 🧐

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