Ref: #001_GENESIS
TRANSLATING THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND FOR THE MASSES, WITHOUT BETRAYING THE BLOOD.
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The runway taught me perfection. The rave taught me truth. I exist in the distortion between the two.
(This is my story)
Nothing happens.
Fucking nothing happens. That’s the defining feature.
Shit, no breakdown. No implosion. No moment you can point to later and say that’s when it started.
Fucking when it started. Life continues in a straight line. Clean. Manageable. Intact.
Shit, clean. Manageable. Intact.
Dissociation doesn’t arrive as a crisis.
Fucking crisis. It arrives as a skill.
Shit, a skill. You learn how to step slightly aside from yourself. Not disappear — just enough distance to keep functioning.
Fucking distance. Enough to avoid friction. Enough to stay competent when things should touch you.
Shit, things should touch you. It feels useful.
Fucking useful. When pressure rises, you don’t feel it fully. You organize it.
Shit, organize it. When something hurts, you flatten it into something neutral.
Fucking neutral. You become good at staying calm because calm keeps the machine running.
Shit, machine running.
People trust you for this.
Fucking trust you for this. They say you’re steady. They say you’re reliable.
Shit, reliable. They say you don’t overreact. You absorb things quietly and keep going.
Fucking quietly. You don’t demand space. You don’t make scenes.
Shit, make scenes. I liked that part.
Fucking liked that part. I liked being praised for how little I needed.
Shit, how little I needed. I liked not having to explain myself.
Fucking not having to explain myself. Dissociation made me easier — for others, and eventually for myself.
Shit, eventually for myself.
The body adjusts in small ways.
Fucking small ways. You breathe shallow so nothing catches.
Shit, nothing catches. You stop noticing hunger until it’s inconvenient.
Fucking inconvenient. Sleep happens, but it doesn’t repair anything.
Shit, repair anything. Emotions arrive late, or sideways.
Fucking sideways. You know what you’re supposed to feel before you feel anything at all.
Shit, anything at all. Sometimes the feeling never shows up.
Fucking never shows up. Sometimes it comes hours later, diluted, already manageable.
Shit, already manageable.
You start mistrusting intensity.
Fucking intensity. Strong reactions feel dangerous, embarrassing, inefficient.
Shit, inefficient. So you keep yourself in the middle — regulated, muted, intact.
Fucking middle. Not alive. Not broken. Just usable.
Shit, usable.
Days stack without texture.
Fucking texture. You remember events, but not the sensation of being in them.
Shit, sensation of being in them. You say the right things at the right time.
Fucking right time. You perform empathy without being moved by it.
Shit, moved by it. You participate without arriving.
Fucking without arriving. And because nothing explodes, no one stops you.
Shit, explodes. You don’t stop yourself.
CUT.
This is dissociation without drama.
Fucking without drama. Not an episode.
Shit, not an episode. A posture.
Fucking posture. And the longer you hold it, the harder it becomes to remember whether full contact was ever safe —
Shit, full contact was ever safe. Or whether you learned, very early on, that it was better not to feel too much in the first place.
Fucking first place.