EveHarrington
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Today I had my worst startle in maybe 4+ years? I was cleaning my room and my mom calls my name and I just jumped out of my skin. When I’m startled I tend to blurt things out loudly and this is how I can gauge the magnitude of the startle. So AFTER I’m startled she then says “come quick the building behind us is on fire!” But of course my brain just hears “the building is on fire!” so my startle is made even worse until a split second later when my brain registers that it’s not our building. The alarms were blaring outside but fortunately it didn’t sound that loud from inside. I realized that we could be the ones who are homeless tonight as the vacancy could have been in that building, when we were looking for an apartment. I feel sad for those who lost their home. :-(