Is this an autism thing?
i come home and "download" all of my social situations away from home into my husband. I focus on the tangible, factual, sure things.
Then I explore my feelings about them, and seek his interpretation. Ultimately I don't usually have any immediate responses to social situations, unless they're very offensive. I have to unwrap the situation to decide what I want to or actually feel. But I never know how to respond, both inside myself and outwardly to others.
Like being talked about in class, as far as I'm concerned there's nothing appropriate that I can say in rebuttal. And there's nothing I can do about it, except avoid those people. So I verbally document it to my husband, and he filters the situation through his brain, so I feel more normal or safe in whatever I decide to feel.
is this a symptom of neurodivergence, or perhaps CPTSD?