Words for surviving: these two address why "just doing X" is so difficult: second shift for the sick, emotional labor
re Trauma: the pain of trauma is in how we respond to it, not the degree of insult. Mainstream US society assumes that the experience of war is "more traumatic" than the daily experience of racism, or interacting with dehumanizing medicos as a disabled person.
An example with sex follows: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 My growing-up molded me to be particularly vulnerable when my authenticity/utility as a human is challenged. So an interaction where my presence is continually ignored would be more traumatic than, say, a man exposing himself and calling me derogatory names. The latter case would certainly make me angry, but it would be EASY to be angry.
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Date: 2017-01-10 04:26 pm (UTC)Words for surviving: these two address why "just doing X" is so difficult: second shift for the sick, emotional labor
re Trauma: the pain of trauma is in how we respond to it, not the degree of insult. Mainstream US society assumes that the experience of war is "more traumatic" than the daily experience of racism, or interacting with dehumanizing medicos as a disabled person.
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My growing-up molded me to be particularly vulnerable when my authenticity/utility as a human is challenged. So an interaction where my presence is continually ignored would be more traumatic than, say, a man exposing himself and calling me derogatory names. The latter case would certainly make me angry, but it would be EASY to be angry.
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