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If any of you care about trauma survivors, STOP using triggered this way. Trauma research has been stunted for so long because it's minimized. You harm current and future survivors when you use "triggered" in such a demeaning and inaccurate way. https://twitter.com/miss_mumbz/status/1300469946028380166
Who popularized "triggered" as upset? Republicans and right wingers. The people who want to profit from trauma as much as possible. You know what helps with that?
Conflating a physiological trauma response with being annoyed/upset so you can mock people for surviving trauma
Conflating a physiological trauma response with being annoyed/upset so you can mock people for surviving trauma
Having triggers means your body is still trying to survive. It is nothing to be embarrassed about. They are not signs of weakness.
They are kinda like....injuries and scars you have to adjust to and deal with after a major accident.
They're not moral or character failures.
They are kinda like....injuries and scars you have to adjust to and deal with after a major accident.
They're not moral or character failures.
I've ranted about this many times before. https://twitter.com/wagatwe/status/1192259650889994241?s=21
I wrote a mini-rant on Patreon for it a while ago.
"One way to resist the bad-faith politicization of trigger warnings is to educate ourselves on what triggers really are and do."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/24336318
"One way to resist the bad-faith politicization of trigger warnings is to educate ourselves on what triggers really are and do."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/24336318
