What things are you sensitive about seeing, because you've personally dealt with them?

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Anonymous wrote:People joking about having seizures or heart attacks makes me squirm. Can confirm, neither are funny.

For me it is choking. I have a family member who died from choking, and sometimes people say thinks like “It was so funny I almost choked on my whatever” meaning they laughed too hard while eating. I know they are using it as a figure of speech but I sometimes feel a tinge of sadness, then I am glad for them that they did not ever experience the same sadness from a choking incident so it is lighthearted for them.

NP. To be fair, you can choke without dying. Yesterday I was drinking water while watching a video and something funny happened. I choked on my water and was coughing for several minutes.

That is not choking. Choking is when you stop coughing, because something has become lodged in your trachea and no air can pass in or out.

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Anonymous wrote:Drowning

Not trying to pick on this one specific answer, but I've read a few like this and keep thinking, how many people do you see drowning on a regular basis to where watching someone drown is triggering to you?

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Anonymous wrote:People joking about having seizures or heart attacks makes me squirm. Can confirm, neither are funny.

For me it is choking. I have a family member who died from choking, and sometimes people say thinks like “It was so funny I almost choked on my whatever” meaning they laughed too hard while eating. I know they are using it as a figure of speech but I sometimes feel a tinge of sadness, then I am glad for them that they did not ever experience the same sadness from a choking incident so it is lighthearted for them.

I’m so sorry. I understand.

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Anonymous wrote:Drowning

Not trying to pick on this one specific answer, but I've read a few like this and keep thinking, how many people do you see drowning on a regular basis to where watching someone drown is triggering to you?

This, along with many other things people have mentioned, are in nearly every damn movie or tv show.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing someone going thru chemo when you know it’s not going to work.

Yep. Ugh.

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Casual male-to-female microaggressions (like older men telling a younger woman to smile). Much more prevalent when I was growing up than now but you still see it once in a while and it’s triggering.

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Entitled drivers who park in handicap spots or on adjacent striped lines who don’t have the correct tags or placards. And people who double park in front of curb cuts. My mom who has MS gets around in a scooter and countless times we’ve had to drive around in her van looking for a handicap spot to open up and then not be able to get onto the sidewalk because of some idiot double parked in front of the only curb cut.

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Anonymous wrote:Drowning

Not trying to pick on this one specific answer, but I've read a few like this and keep thinking, how many people do you see drowning on a regular basis to where watching someone drown is triggering to you?

This, along with many other things people have mentioned, are in nearly every damn movie or tv show.

But the portrayal is entirely wrong. They’re always thrashing and yelling. It doesn’t look like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Drowning

Not trying to pick on this one specific answer, but I've read a few like this and keep thinking, how many people do you see drowning on a regular basis to where watching someone drown is triggering to you?

This, along with many other things people have mentioned, are in nearly every damn movie or tv show.

or people who say things like "omg I felt like i was drowning..."

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Anonymous wrote:Dying soldiers is a tough one, even in movies. Kids suffering in war zones too. There’s few things more upsetting to me than that.

It’s kids and innocent people suffering in war zones for me. And also, when its doctors and medical staff kidnapped, tortured, or murdered. It’s horrible to witness this now.

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A man’s voice sounding rage-y and out of control. Puts my anxiety through the roof instantly since living through abuse.

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I was adopted (closed adoption) as an infant to a very dysfunctional family.

My parents were simply awful & should never have had kids.

So I feel sensitive when people are against abortion in favor of giving a baby up for adoption.
Because I personally have experienced how some parents “love” an adoptive child much differently than their biological ones.

Americans are being spoon fed this adage that all children put up for adoption go to happy homes but that is not always the case as in my own. ❤️‍🩹

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Narcissists trigger me

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I’m triggered by helpless women who refuse to function as independent mature adults that are capable of taking care of themselves. They remind me of my exhausting mother who likes to act helpless but isn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Moms smacking their kids hard (like my mom).

Loud public shaming/berating by parents (like my mom).

Kids allowed to be withdrawn/antisocial in public and at family events, or families eating in total silence at great speed at restaurants. That’s a super personal hangup that’s really specific to how my husband was raised and how it impacts our family life. When I see a little kid sullenly reading a book and slumped in their own corner at a nice restaurant, I don’t think, yay, they’re reading. My brain goes straight to: good luck to the woman who married that kid and into that family.

So do you want the family to berate them for being withdrawn in public, or do you want them to be left alone. Getting annoyed that a shy kid is reading a book is…interesting.

NP - there's no reason for a kid to be shy with their own family. If they can't sit in a restaurant and interact with their family members they should be in intensive therapy because something is seriously wrong. It's not appropriate to check out mentally and read a book during a family meal. And I say that as a voracious reader who is an introvert (but not shy).

Oh wow, you have no idea how some kids work. My ADHD/Autistic kid will absolutely focus on his book at a restaurant, because the restaurant is overwhelming/overstimulating. That's fine, and he doesn't need "intensive therapy". When I was a kid, my brother and I (who are not neurodivergent) always took books to restaurants, and didn't necessarily interact with our parents. Our parents were fine with this.