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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 8
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      I think it’s gauche to claim this in the US. Respectability requires a certain amount of emotional baggage here. People here look at me weird if I say horrifying things like “my parents are nice enough people and I had a pretty much okay upbringing I have pleasant memories of” https://twitter.com/TripleJas/status/1303547968562163713 …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 8
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      I honestly suspect many Americans of manufacturing childhood traumas to fit in. Either that, or they actually buy the creepy levels of theatrical family/friends intimacy portrayed in American TV shows/movies.

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        2. Sterling Crispin  🕊️‏ @sterlingcrispin Sep 8
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          also some people are like "yeah I asked for a BMW but got a Subaru on my 16th birthday really traumatic I never forgave them after that" some people have really different ideas of "baggage"

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 8
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          trauma inflation ftw

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        2. Jasmine Bina‏ @TripleJas Sep 8
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          I don’t think its fair to suspect that. Or suspect that people didnt get the car they wanted as a kid and label it as trauma, as someone else has suggested here. And it’s hard to see if you can’t empathize with others in the first place and realize their experience might be real.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 8
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          It would certainly be wrong to act on the suspicion without evidence

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        2. newnumbertwo‏ @wallacewinfrey Sep 8
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          When in doubt, whip out the anecdotal logical fallacy, amiright? I can honestly say I've never met a single person who I seriously thought manufactured a childhood trauma to "fit in". In fact, most kids I knew growing up who experienced trauma went to great lengths to hide it.

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          > most kids I knew growing up who experienced trauma went to great lengths to hide it Agreed - I've found the same. I'd actually suspect there's an inverse relationship based on my experience. It's demonstrably true for abuse survivors.

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        1. Mark Ruark‏ @mark_ruark Sep 8
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          Stiff upper lip, and all of that.

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        1. Gregory Rose‏ @grrosegr Sep 9
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          The author of “The Body Keeps the Score” said childhood trauma was a public health crisis decades ago, I think affecting like at least 30-40%. But no one (except some individual therapists) listened to him Probably disproportionately more in tech or Twitter

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          Look at how much anger and relationship issues are common in the US right now Even if people are making this up... that would likely be just another trauma There’s so much, not to mention people can have repressed trauma that comes out elsewhere

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        1. Balázs Kégl‏ @balazskegl Sep 9
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          How do you reconcile this with the huge number of clueless the current society produces and absorbs in organizations?

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