I just talked to my dad for the first time since our gigantic fight, and it taught me something fairly profound about what causes fragmentation of thought

Check it out, and tell me if you relate, dear fellow scattered one (if that's in fact who you are).

Here I am with my father.

I know I’ve had this revelation before, but I’ve likely forgotten it, as that’s how brains tend to work when trauma and fear and Pavlovian-induced responses are in play. Not calling myself a victim. I just am who I am, and growing up with my father was an experience that you cannot understand unless you too have grown up with a …