When people in your life experience an abnormal situation as normal, they think your normal reaction is abnormal. They may think you are being dramatic, overreacting, just trying to get attention or it may be in extreme circumstances that the authorities are called to intervene and you are labeled as a troublemaker, mentally ill or even dangerous and you are never heard or seen or understood.

And so it goes.

The abnormal situation becomes normalized and that is the real tragedy!