Domestic violence created a cruel paradox in your *threat detection system* 🚨 － you became simultaneously hypervigilant and mysteriously blind to danger. Your nervous system learned to scan for specific types of threats, but this specialization created unexpected `blind spots` in your radar. You might *overreact to raised voices* while missing manipulative behavior, or panic at minor conflicts－while staying calm around genuinely unsafe people 🚩. Your internal alarm system was calibrated by chaos, not security－making you expert at detecting familiar threats while missing *entirely different red flags*. This isn't a personal failing; it's how trauma rewires perception 🧠. You might tolerate subtle manipulation or emotional abuse because it doesn't match your template for danger, leaving you vulnerable to harm that arrives in unfamiliar wrapper.

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