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How I am - really

It's time we talk about it. Please know: I can contract for my safety.

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Kate Speer
Apr 25, 2025
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They keep checking on me.
Head resting on my feet
Paws draped across my lap

They’ve been doing bark alerts too
Especially when my stillness seems to creep
towards forever 

I never told them
But I never have to.
They just know.
I am not okay.

When I was first diagnosed with dissociative disorder four and a half years ago I thought,
Okay, that explains…

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