Wow, reading this thread makes me feel lucky for all of the support and care I've received. I already talked about one of the things that has "ruined" my life (and I'm actually taking a break from last minute editing), so let me talk to you about the thing I fear might ruin my life in the future (or two things rather).
My paranoid desire to hide things and my semi-eidetic/photographic memory.
My parents, as I was growing up, didn't like me playing video games/using the computer/internet/etc. too much. They always took me out to play sports, martial arts, etc. instead, and the many times I impeded on their rules, I'd always get punished. As a result, I came to equate getting caught with punishment, and started to hide things away with unusual vigor.
I'm not sure when I discovered I had a semi-eidetic memory, but it's always been a strange thing. I can remember that when I was in fifth grade, my sister in eighth, going to a Baskin-Robbins across from a Cici's pizza and a Sears, my mom parking in the third spot from the corner, and my sister ordering a small mint chocolate-chip cup while I got a raspberry and orange sorbet mix in a cone. Even so, I'm horrible with numbers: I can't remember what the year or day was, only that it was in April.
Why would these two lead to my ruin? Well, my semi-eidetic memory can re-create faces, images and events perfectly, but it doesn't just happen on command. Sometimes I'll be showering/doing work/etc. and it'll just hit me, so vivid that I can almost taste it, and sometimes it hurts. Whether unconsciously or on command, most of these times are accompanied by a scream, though I usually stifle it with a hand or by closing my mouth.
I'm worried that one day, I'll be giving a presentation/saying marriage vows/doing something important and public, and a memory of seventh grade will pop up, the time when I was in English class and I accidentally spilled a box of Nerds over a tile floor, causing my female blond teacher with a leather-ish face and green eyes to sigh and force the entire class to pick them up by hand. I'll scream reflexively, perhaps even rant and rave in pain, and by the time I recover, I'll be institutionalized, or else my reputation and sanity forever in doubt. It's bad knowing that your past is a bit messed up, but it's even worse to know that you might/will screw up in the future, causing irreparable damage to your life.
Sorry for the run-on sentences, and I'm not psychotic, I swear!
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