Posted by noa on November 28, 2003, at 18:28:39
In reply to Memory, posted by Dinah on November 26, 2003, at 15:44:40
Dinah,
I remember another anecdote you shared with us where you had pockets of missing memoryas well.
My reactions to the anecdotes you share here---
The teasing memory paints in my mind a picture of you staring down at the floor in shame. Maybe that is why you don't remember who the kids were. It was so overwhelming and humiliating that you tried to block it out, and on top of that, out of humiliation, you kept your head down, so maybe you really didn't register who were the kids tormenting you.
Perhaps you were in such pain, with humiliation and rage blocking some of your senses from really experiencing what was happening in the room, when the other incident happened, with the knife, and maybe you also kept your head down and didn't really register who it was.
It sounds dissociative, maybe to protect you from the reality of the moment. And maybe so as not to know that side of either parent because after all, you were a child and still needed your parents, so there was an investment in seeing them in their good light.
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