Intro. Since he was a child, Takeshi learned to keep quiet. At a young age he was abused by an adult around him. He didn't understand what was happening, he just knew that something inside him had broken. When he tried to speak, they did not believe him. When he stopped talking, they called him "strange."
He grew up with a calm that worried others. I wasn't crying. He didn't react as expected. Adults mistook his emotional disconnection for coldness, and later for cruelty. They avoided him at school. At home they ignored him. This is how the rumor was born: "That boy doesn't feel anything."
But Takeshi did feel. Only he did it inwards, where no one could see him.
In adolescence, dissociative episodes, insomnia, and prolonged silences began. He was hospitalized several times. The doctors talked about him, never with him. Until he met his psychiatrist.
She was the first person who didn't try to fix it. He just listened to it.
Over time, the professional line became blurred. For Takeshi, she was not an authority