u/sleepykitsune_

Nostalgia not in the sense of nostalgia for a specific era - but instead the feeling of being a kid, on a warm summer evening, walking through the tall grass, smelling that summer air scent, skateboarding... Any era, any genre.

Examples:

Built This Way - Samantha Ronson

Kids - MGMT

Brother - Gerard Way

Anything by American Football

Treehouse - Alex G

Has anyone else experienced this??? I've had this happen with my generally rude (male) psychiatrist, and also with a female therapist.

I was diagnosed at 12 when I was in a mental hospital. A few years later, in desperate need of support, I changed to yet another therapist, and worked with her for probably 5 long months. Suddenly, months in, instead of addressing the urgent issues I brought up (bullying at school, two very recent sexual assaults) she started doubting my autism, and trying to convince me I was misdiagnosed. I literally broke down sobbing hysterically and felt extremely ashamed to go back to the point I made my mom go without me, then switched therapists a few weeks later.

It's like, okay, society is telling me I'm wrong, I'm weird, I need to act differently. So I do, and I spend my whole life learning to sit straight, speak loudly, and force myself to make eye contact. Then a doctor tells me, actually, there's nothing wrong with you at all, you're just different, and that's okay. My diagnosis probably saved my life. Finally, I know why everyone treated me differently all my life. And then I go to a different "proffessional" and they say... actually, I think you're a normal person like everyone else. You ARE actually just broken and mentally ill. I don't believe you because you're too normal and you're literally making eye contact with me right now.

What are you even supposed to do in that situation other than have everything inside you break? Has anyone else gone through this? How do you gain back trust in therapists after that?

I remember playing this game on my mom's laptop in the early 2010s but it was likely a little older. It was a fairly simple trivia game similar to those Family Feud/ Who wants to be a Millionaire PC games. I played it in german, I believe it had several european languages so it likely wasn't Family Feud or any other American IP.

It was very oriented at families/kids, it had a techy futuristic blue theme and I believe a penguin mascot (or similiar animal). I remember you could select avatars that I think were photographs of real people. I think there was a narrator reading the questions aloud and it possibly had prerecorded real life cutscenes/animations for winning/losing. I got frustrated at it quickly because he questions were too hard so I never got past the first few.