u/afilaanda420

This is purely a personal rant and a reflection of my own annoyance with humans.

The phrase “everyone has trauma” is thrown around a lot, and it bothers me. It’s often used in the context of excusing shitty behavior.

I feel annoyed because the longer I live on this earth, the more I realize that NO. Not everyone has comparable trauma.

Being kidnapped as a kid, stuck in a child prison for years, abused in every possible sense, destroyed over and over and in all ways is not normal at all.

Because of that phrase, I’ve given way too much grace to others, forgiven too much, and I’m annoyed by it.

I also feel alienated by it.

Program trauma isn’t your everyday American middle class persons “trauma.” I want to reclaim the word.