I’m just wondering like… suppose if my parents weren’t my real parents, and were actually my kidnappers, how young would that have to have happened?
I have very vague memories of like going to Hong Kong as a kid… and like… suppose I got kidnapped there, would I even have remembered?
How old do you actually remember the faces of your real parents? Can a set of imposter parents manage to trick you? Like somehow brainwash you to forget the kidnapping ever happened? And that you were always their child?
I read about like kidnapping stories where the kid just grow up normally in their adoptive family and apparantly never remember they got kidnapped? What?
(Just curious, definitely not paranoia… xD)
Attachment theory is well researched and developed. And if I understand it correctly, not having your mom around after 3 months is likely to be a significant trauma which could absolutely account for current “issues”
Source: am discovering some very early trauma of my own and working through all that means for me
Hang in there, friend!