I'm watching so much terrible Discourse right now and what I've got, as someone who has lived with ptsd for 16 years, is this: your history of trauma doesn't allow you to dictate how other people behave and especially not how other people deal with their trauma.
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Someone said, in a tweet I can't find, "there's a difference between feeling unsafe and being unsafe" and that absolutely hits the nail on the head re Pride Discourse going around right now.
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I have ptsd. It makes me hypervigilant and paranoid as fuck. EVERYONE in a crowd looks threatening to me. Even you, 5 foot tall femme person with a high pitched voice and a smile. Even your toddler. Especially your toddler, they're unpredictable.
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The fact that my broken ass brain finds toddlers unpredictable and therefore threatening doesn't mean I get to dictate that all toddlers should be kept out of public spaces, it means I need to be self-aware, develop coping methods, and keep going to therapy.
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We all know that the white women who call the cops on black families having cook outs and living their lives are wrong. But you know what? Those white women probably genuinely felt unsafe. The problem is that feeling unsafe isn't the same as being unsafe.
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You have to learn to acknowledge that your brain is going to misfire. Particularly if you have been the victim of trauma, your brain is no longer well calibrated to tell you when a situation is genuinely unsafe.
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Thanks for saying all of this.
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