LibbyIsComplex

November 2025

Cinderella as Tactical Intelligence

I grew up embarrassed that Cinderella was my favorite Disney princess.

Nov 25 • 

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The Body Remembers What I Forgot

Diagnosis as amplifier, distortion, and recontextualizion.

Nov 18 • 

Libby Banks

The Kenneth Effect: When Your Brain Sees Everyone Wrong

Content warnings: Body dysmorphic disorder, visual processing dysfunction, mental health misdiagnosis

Nov 11 • 

Libby Banks

Comet Friends and Lighthouse Friends

The woman at the book club gathering has warm eyes and that particular energy of someone assembling their people.

Nov 4 • 

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October 2025

Thrown Under a Fire Blanket

RE: autistic masking and dissociation

Oct 28 • 

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The Futures We Never Got to Mourn

CW: Childlessness, chronic illness, trauma

Oct 21 • 

Libby Banks

The Attachment Style That Hid from Me

Why I Couldn't Recognize My Own Avoidance

Oct 14 • 

Libby Banks

The Critique Doesn’t Collapse: Reading, Recursion, and the Permission to Spiral

I am a person who has often been told to “not read too much into it.” It genuinely can be well-meaning.

Oct 7 • 

Libby Banks

September 2025

It's Not Indecision, It's Devotion

The worst place to have a crisis of morality is the candy aisle at 10:30 PM.

Sep 30 • 

Libby Banks

Living Life Out of Order: What Lilia Calderu Teaches Us About Dissociation and Integration

Content warning: This essay discusses dissociation and dissociative experiences through the lens of a fictional character.

Sep 23 • 

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