While other kids worried about homework, you worried about whether mom was okay. Whether the house would be peaceful. Whether everyone ate. This created something called a hypervigilant nervous system. You became hyper-aware of micro-expressions, tone shifts, energy changes. That's not intuition - that's a trauma adaptation. Your survival depended on predicting other people's emotions. You weren't mature for your age. You were hypervigilant. And now you walk into every room still scanning, still