Thwit

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CHAPTER:
Boats Against the Current
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CONCEPT:
Anemoia
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Tags:
Guilt-Shame
Time-Memory
Pain-Loss

Thwit

n.
a pang of shame when an embarrassing memory from adolescence rushes back into your head from out of nowhere, which is somehow no less painful even if nobody else remembers it happened in the first place.

Acronym of The Hell Was I Thinking?

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Amentalio

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Lisolia

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Spinning Playback Head

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Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

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