If you had to divide your life by one event, before and after, what would that event be and why? (lemmy.autism.place)

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I guess it's another way of asking, "What event in your life had to most effective impact?"

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[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Before I fled my home state (in the USA) for another, more accepting state, I would probably have said dropping out of college.

Oddly it was one of the best decisions I made for my mental health. Dropped out, got a job, made friends, moved out of my parents'.

Then I had to flee and ruined all that. Still recovering economically and psychically a year after. Things seem better here, but I'm fighting with an anxiety/panic disorder after putting off mentally dealing with the move (and a dozen other shit life events) for 11 months

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Meeting my current partner, been with her for 1/5 of my life now

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I was thrown into group home hell as an early teen. It was SDA, only guys, no music, Internet, TV, strict poorly cooked diet, intense manual labor and no phones. Calls from my parents for 15 min once a week if I "behaved". Intense religious programming and your leaving was determined arbitrarily based on "points".

Spent roughly 3-4 years of my early teen experience there before I decided I was no longer interested in participating and decided instead on choosing to be a problem. Parents pulled me out and sent me off to boarding school when they got worried things weren't working in their favor.

I've recovered slowly since. It's been about half my life ago now and I still have night terrors and rages that make it not possible for my s/o and I to sleep together. I punch, kick and scream in my sleep.

I didn't have a chance to even consider my gender until my mid 20's and my parents have abandoned my sister and I over us refusing to conform to their views for their love. I will forever blame that awful place for robbing my childhood. For raping my friends. For beating kids. For forcing religious practice.

I grew stronger in many ways because of the hell, but despite its efforts.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Covid. My perception of the world changed so much.

[-] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Waking up after a night of depression and binge drinking and my "third eye" being open. The world was different, I saw things differently. My depression was basically gone that day and no more drinking. Some call this enlightenment. It's beautiful, appreciating the world and seeing things in a wider context. There is no purpose to life but that's what makes it beautiful

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

NaN

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Why one event? Do most people only get one event, or have I just gone through a lot?

[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Transition

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

My baptism

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