"When you remember something clearly and someone tells you it didn't happen that way, that doesn't mean your memory is faulty. It might mean they have a reason to rewrite it. When you feel hurt by something and someone tells you you're overreacting, that doesn't mean your emotional response is wrong. It means they don't want to be accountable for the impact of what they did. When you raise a concern and get told you're too sensitive, that's not information about your sensitivity level. That's someone trying to make your valid observation into your personal problem. You are not imagining things. You are not too much. You are not inherently bad at reading situations. You have been systematically taught to distrust the one tool you have for navigating reality, your own perception. And the fact that you can recognize this pattern now, the fact that you can see how it got built, that's the beginning of something. That's how you start taking your reality back. You don't have to fix this overnight."