Kay so it’s a hard PTSD day because social media. I love you guys, tho, and you should post whatever you like, whatever makes you happy, because that’s what social media should be about. PTSD is a minefield, and what sets me off surprises me sometimes, and I’ve been living with it for 36 years. What set me off was something that probably seemed jokey to most people, but as a neurodivergent child abuse survivor was horrifying. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have reacted like I did. My reaction was perfectly rational for someone with my perspective. It might have seemed extreme to someone else, someone not-me, but it was rational. What I don’t want is for someone to think I’m angry at them personally for posting or reblogging something that they found funny that I did not. Our perspectives are different. The world is a different place to each of us based on who we are and the experiences we went through. A joke that might be funny to some, might trigger horrible emotional turmoil in someone who’s been abused, been raped, been discriminated against or attacked because of their race, their gender, their sexuality. That doesn’t make them wrong, too sensitive, or without humour. That makes them a human, a squishy being with a different experience to yours. Please remember, please be kind, and please adjust your world-view if needed. Thanks.
WOW OKAY everybody get in line to ban this tool. Religious freedom is one thing, turning up on a personal post talking about my actual experiences living with and dealing with the day-to-day legacies of PTSD and child abuse and telling me I’m going to hell is a good way to be the exact opposite of what Jesus was actually all about. You picked the wrong kind of person to troll with that kind of crap.
So, if anyone feels like banhammering a person who super deserves it, @itzjesusorhell is your guy/girl/other person.
knitting in the dark 