How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me
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I wish that, earlier in my life, someone had told me something like this. You know how there are people who love talking about trauma? How everyone has, like, public school trauma, or gym class trauma, or trauma from their first bad breakup, and stuff like that? I know it seems silly. First of all, trauma is a concept you associate, reasonably, with people who have had horrific personal experiences of violence. Secondly, it all smacks of proud victimhood and stolen valor—everyone being fascinated by their own pain, wearing it as a badge of honor, potentially so that they can resign…
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