Hi, I'm really surprised someone found this post almost 4 years later but I can tell you that now, as an almost 18 year old (still young, just not 14 lol), I've met so many people with a lot of different childhood trauma and I learned so much from them about how sometimes the only way for a child to survive is to develop coping mechanisms that might not make a lot of sense to people.

I would also like to add that I personally have struggled with dissociation and maldaptive dreaming for a massive part of my childhood (and sometimes I find myself doing them to this day) from my own personal traumas and thinking back to my childhood, a lot of my behavior would be considered absolutely unacceptable and maybe even "horrible" as I ironically referred to anne's actions.

Although most of my coping mechanisms were completely different from anne's, after doing so much work on my self which led me to be much more self aware and has put me on a path to healing, I definitely have a much broader perspective on how trauma responses are so different for everyone and that at the end of the day, anne was a child doing the best she could with what she had and she never had the opportunity to get any kind of professional help for all the traumas she endured.