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Q. What is trauma?

A. Being laughed at the burn marks left on your feet as gross

My mom told me when I was little that I got burned, and I don't remember...

Before I was one year old, about seven or eight months old.

It seems that they went on a trip to Hiroshima to commemorate my birth (me, cousins, older brothers, parents, relatives, etc.)

So, apparently they ate soba for lunch,

I heard I was next to my mom and she was carrying the soba and she bumped into a clerk trying to put it on her desk and it was fine at the time, but then when everyone was eating, the fresh soba next to me fell on my head and burned my whole body. So somehow after the burn, it's not visible or on my face, but it's still on my right ankle.

When I was in kindergarten, when I was at the pool, the boys laughed at me saying, "What? You're so gross after that...

It's a little okay now, or the trauma hasn't disappeared, but it might have been more traumatic when I heard the story of the time when it happened...

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幼少期の火傷によるトラウマは、私にとって忘れがたい経験の一つです。小さな足首に残った跡は、見た目以上に心に深い傷を残しました。特に幼稚園のプールの時間に、その跡をからかわれたときは非常に辛く感じました。周囲の言葉がどれだけ心に刺さり、自分の身体的な違いを強く意識したかは言葉では言い表せません。それでも、時間が経つにつれて、人の見た目を気にしすぎないことや、自分を大切にする気持ちの大切さを学びました。トラウマは完全には消えないものの、火傷の原因となった出来事の裏話を母から聞いた時の方が、意外にも感情的に重かったことも思い出されます。これをきっかけに、自分の過去を受け入れ、自己肯定感を育てるきっかけにもなりました。似たような経験を持つ方には、自分の傷跡や過去の痛みを恥じるのではなく、それらを通じて成長した自分を誇りに思ってほしいと伝えたいです。心の痛みは時間と共に和らぐものですが、それに向き合い自分らしく生きる強さを持つことが何より大切だと感じます。これからも火傷の痕跡と共に歩みながら、自分のストーリーを大切にしていきたいと思います。

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