So, a blog called idislikecispeople said this:
wait so is a trigger anything you dislike?
A trigger is anything that ilicits a negative response in someone, so in some sense, yeah?
Somebody wrote a long response about what triggering actually looks like. That, in turn, got this response:
WOW I FUCKING LOVE THESE POSTS THAT GET ALL NO TRUE SCOTSMEN WITH PANIC DISORDERS. I LOVE HEARING THAT I DON’T ~REALLY~ HAVE A PANIC DISORDER BECAUSE I DON’T GO INTO FULL MELTDOWN BUT INSTEAD HAVE TO SUFFER THE SLOW BURN THAT BUILDS INTO PANIC ATTACKS AND FEELING CONSTANTLY SICK AND ON-EDGE AFTER BEING TRIGGERED.
~*LUV IT*~
AND I DOUBLE LUV IT THAT INSTEAD OF CONSIDERING, HEY, MAYBE TUMBLR HAS BECOME A SAFE SPACE FOR PEOPLE AND HAS EMPOWERED A LOT OF FOLKS TO ASK FOR ACCOMMODATIONS IN ORDER TO MAKE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH BETTER, NAH, IT’S A SHITTY TREND FROM ~TUMBLRINAS~ BECAUSE ~LOL FUCK THEM GIRLY GIRLS RITE~
WHAT A WONDERFUL MOTHERFUCKING POST. TY FOR REBLOGGING IT. GO FUCK YOURSELF.
"THERE'S NO ABUSE GOING ON HERE. NOBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY ABUSES THE TERM TRIGGER EVER. 'TRIGGER' IS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT BE."
There was another long post that basically said the same thing as capsmash here, with the "trigger can apply to different things with different reactions, and they're all valid". So either they're ignoring what these people are responding to, or they honestly believe that simply being uncomfortable/annoyed/irritated counts as being triggered.
Also, whenever I read posts like this, I think of the phrase "everything is valid" sung in the tune of "every sperm is sacred".
