Today, we're talking about the convoluted connection between reality and personal experience. You can expose several people to the exact same event, and yet everyone involved will walk away with unique and often conflicting accounts of their experience. This becomes even more complicated in dysfunctional families where secrecy, isolation, and complex relationship dynamics cast a long shadow over each family member's perception. Beyond just being confusing, these drastic differences in perception complicate our ability to heal from the trauma we endured, to maintain our relationships within the family, or even to trust our version of the events that transpired. Join us as we blind-record our individual accounts of a single traumatic event in our childhood and then discuss the contradictions in our stories, as well as how our subjective experiences have shaped the adults we are now. Patreon members at our two highest tiers get access to bonus content for this episode, where we do an even deeper dive into the roles we each played in the family and how the differences in how we were raised influence our memory of events. https://www.patreon.com/differentfunctional?fan_landing=true