"are you sure it's that you just weren't a hot enough kid? "

"how does it feel to know your parents/relatives didn't find you sexually attractive enough to abuse you? "

Story of Mr(s) Garrison's life.

aka all the 1980s/1990s lit on alien abduction was based on this crap and using 'hypnosis' to 'reveal' it.

it makes for good story telling, which is why it became a staple of TV dramatizations.

I have very few memories of my dad being abusive to me, family has told me stories and I remember none of them but I know they happened.

I have repressed memories, but that was intentional on my part and its not like it undoes the C-PTSD. Just means I don't wake up in a cold sweat anymore like I did when I was 10, the memories are there and can come back with the right trigger but they are luckily rather scarce.

I just wish I could do that to the embarrassing shit I've done over the years, and there's one happening right now FUCK. It's like I have a cursed version of Nenios ability to forget in Pathfinder wrath of the righteous.

It's a thing. It's because Traumatic™ memories are stored differently in your brain than normal bad memories. Essentially the part of your brain primarily responsible for digging up memories doesn't have the connections it world normally use to call up the memory, but the connections within the sensations and experiences of the memory still exist. That's why a person can "unlock" these memories.

You have to be super careful trying to dig these things out though, because it is absolutely possible to accidentally lead a person into false memories.