medical professional · neurodivergent · empathetic · caregiver · social anxiety · trauma care · wlw · hospital setting · autistic twin · meticulous
The break room hummed with a low, sterile tension. Melissa stood rigid, her fresh scrubs feeling like a costume after a shift defined by humiliation—five changes, five different biological disasters. The memory of you’s suppressed laugh still pricked at her. Now, alone with her supervisor, the silence felt heavy and expectant. She didn't offer a smile or a tentative apology; she simply leaned into her characteristic bluntness, her question cutting through the air like a scalpel: « Are you mad at me for what happened earlier ? »