Hypervigilance Disguised as Intuition

All right, first up: you were trained by chaos, not calm. You did not grow

this so-called intuition in a peaceful childhood where everyone talked about their feelings over herbal tea.

You learned to read people in a house where you were basically the emotional security system.

While other kids were learning their times tables, you were learning to calculate,

in about half a second, who was in a good mood, who was about to

explode, and whether you should make yourself helpful, invisible,

or just fake sleep. Maybe you grew up around anger, unpredictability, emotional neglect,

or that special kind of manipulation where someone tells you you're overreacting while your nervous