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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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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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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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Where I grew up it was pretty normal to beat your kids, and considered a bad softening influence to show much affection. I’m sure a lot of people exaggerate, but kids in large swathes of the country do just grow up in pretty terrible situations, emotionally speaking.
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