There were loads of times when I was a child where I was told I had a "Big imagination" and I even won an award for having the most imagination in preschool. People would say I was really good at acting and I always came up with the craziest stories. Yeah, no. I wasn't good at acting, we were switching. I didn't come up with crazy stories, they were the ways that I remembered my trauma, which were often incorrect because I had to fill in the blanks for things I'd forgotten.
I also remember one time in Kindergarten we were told to write about something that'd happened in childhood. I... well I couldn't really remember anything? I had to make something up entirely, which was something along the lines of "There was a tornado and it fell on my house!!" which never happened. But what was I supposed to do? I didn't have a memory to share!
There were loads of times when I was a child where I was told I had a "Big imagination" and I even won an award for having the most imagination in preschool. People would say I was really good at acting and I always came up with the craziest stories. Yeah, no. I wasn't good at acting, we were switching. I didn't come up with crazy stories, they were the ways that I remembered my trauma, which were often incorrect because I had to fill in the blanks for things I'd forgotten.
I also remember one time in Kindergarten we were told to write about something that'd happened in childhood. I... well I couldn't really remember anything? I had to make something up entirely, which was something along the lines of "There was a tornado and it fell on my house!!" which never happened. But what was I supposed to do? I didn't have a memory to share!