If you were a big reader as a kid, you were disassociating.
Readers added context
While, technically, being deeply engrossed in reading is an example of mild dissociation, this incorrectly applies the psychological context of coping with stress/trauma or struggling with psychosis. Pathologising normal behaviour is trivialising to those with real disorders.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociat…
confession: i always liked watching boyfriends play video games. the stories are fun but i’m not good at using the controller!!! and it can actually be very feminist to sit back and say “go in that room i bet something is in there”
how long could a doctor leave you in an exam room before you considered like, popping your head out to ask what’s going on. for me i think about seven hours
male cult leader: I have received a new revelation from the lord
me: let me guess, he wants you to have multip—
cult leader: I am to have multiple wives
