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Fawning

by LittleEpisodes

I am just a child, and I am just a fawn. I am just a lamb, and I am just a pawn. I am just a petal, and I am just a piglet. I am just a pillow, and I am just a twig. I am just a cloud, and I am just a dream. I am just a candy, and I am just a cream. I am just a pebble, and I am just a worm. I am just the dirt, and I will never learn.
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Written by
LittleEpisodes
23 / Bigender
Published
Feb 22, 2025
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Notes

People are often familiar with the "fight or flight" response, but this poem, using metaphors, highlights some of the different ways people may experience the brain's fawn response. This includes regression, self-sacrifice, self-sexualization, dissociation, etc...

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