By bibana on Skatehive
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I experienced something called the fight or flight response. I did not even know what it was called or what had actually happened until I googled it later and read more about it. I woke up cheerful, started doing some house chores, singing, and then suddenly, in the middle of a conversation about something small and honestly quite stupid, some kind of nonsense, although my brain probably experienced it as a huge injustice, my body started shaking so badly that my hands were literally jerking away from my body. I will not even write what exactly happened, because I know it was just a trigger, and it could have been a million other things. My heart was racing, I could not catch my breath, and my hands were jumping up almost thirty centimeters into the air. I got a little scared, for myself and for others. I honestly felt like in that moment I could hit someone if they stood in my way while I was trying to escape. Such a strange and terrifying fee