Dennis who doesn’t remember most of his childhood, especially high school. He never had it easy growing up, always the odd one out, and that became compounded when he got to high school, at that point it became clear to everyone that he wasnt going to change, he wasn’t gonna fall in line, he was forever different.
He realises one day that, hey, i havent had that weird spacey feeling in a few years now, i swear i felt like that all the time in high school. He mentions it to trinity in a “huh weird coincidence” type way, and she gives him a look and asks him to elaborate a little on what that spacey feeling felt like, and after saying “bro you were dissociating”
And dennis spends the next few weeks learning about dissociation, giving younger him empathy he was never given. It takes him a bit too long to realise, oh it was because i was in an extremely traumatic environment. He just thought it was because he was a little bit stressed those years. He is not the best at connecting dots when it comes to himself