5 Types of Traumatic Intelligence Only Narcissistic Abuse Survivors have
Number two, you have the ability to physically shrink your presence and become completely invisible. You learn how to perfectly read a room without ever making a sound or even looking at it—by simply listening to the heavy, uneven weight of their footsteps in the hallway, or the exact aggressive way they turn their key in the front door.
Your brain instantly calculates the active threat level in the house. You can measure the barometric pressure of their bad mood before they even take their coat off. When the threat level is high, your intelligence kicks in, and you become a psychological ghost. You learn how to pull your aura inward and stop taking up any space whatsoever.
Like a deep-sea submarine engaging its silent drive to avoid hostile enemy sonar, you know exactly how to soften your breathing. Make your physical movements completely silent and seamlessly blend into the wallpaper of the room. You learn how to walk across floorboards without making a single creek. This is not weakness. This is a brilliant, highly calculated tactical maneuver. You mastered the physical art of absolute invisibility.
By erasing your presence, you successfully dodged their crosshairs. You became a shadow in your own home because you knew that standing out, speaking up, or even just breathing too loudly would make you the immediate target of their unprovoked rage.
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