i feel weird when ppl use the term "survivors" for people who went through an unpleasant but not-even-close-to-life-threatening-thing
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I guess an argument can be made that I've survived every day so far, but yep — it is a pretty weird use of the term.
A caveat would be something damaging enough (physically or mentally) that it would alter someone's outlook on life, but I guess those are also life-threatening.
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hard disagree. it’s much healthier to refer to yourself as a survivor of, let’s say, abuse than to coin yourself as a victim and remain in the down-trodden mentality. in reverse, “survivor” fosters healing and a growth mindset.
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I don't think of myself as a victim of abuse or survivor of abuse. I'm someone who experienced abuse when I was young, sure, but it's far past being a salient or defining feature of my experience of the world today.
Hopefully, with time and healing these things fade.
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I also feel weird when people use that term for things that that person has no agency over
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Yeah. It's a little overused & blanketing. On one hand, while the experience itself was not life-threatening, the psyche can twist in a way that begins to go against survival instincts, leading to self-destruction. OTOH, chill on self-victimization...
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It’s trendy these days to be a victim, so it’s trendy to be a ‘survivor’ of some thing that made you a ‘victim’. Modern times
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it is technically true tho. if you dont die you are a survivor.
i agree tho it feels like the wrong word and fishing for sympathy or something
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Like what? Usually when people call themselves survivors it’s of diseases, domestic abuse, trafficking, rape, pedophilia.. While those aren’t always “life-threatening,” the trauma often causes suicidality which is life-threatening. Being a survivor of suicidality is legitimate.
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