I used to really dislike how certain things I couldn’t remember clearly. It’s like I was a goldfish at those times. I learned about dissociation and the effects that come with it sometimes. I don’t remember ½ of my life. I wasn’t even a person until a certain age. I didn’t understand the mechanism, but used to say that I “wasn’t even living” until a certain age.

I think dissociation works in a few ways