• Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Nice reply man, super polite. You process trauma in whatever way best suits you, but… You’re making the claim that is essentially “if you’re bothered by traumatic memories, you can just stop thinking about them” which is reductive and simplistic as fuck, and above all very much objectively wrong.

    People who are bothered by images from traumatic memories can’t just choose to “picture a teapot instead if you need to get away from it.” That’s. Not. How. Trauma. Works.

    • mrcleanup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Hey, I don’t have to be polite to people who try to invalidate my life experience. Don’t tell me how I work.

      Feel free to tell me how YOU work, but telling me that “it doesn’t work that way” when it obviously does for me doesn’t make your experience somehow universal.

      Also, this is the Internet, if you can’t handle some people not being polite then I have bad news for you…