exhighfunctioning:

sinbadism:

actuallysadistic:

actuallysadistic:

“everyone’s been through trauma!” no, no they haven’t. hardship ≠ trauma.

trauma is described by the dsm as “outside the normal range of human experiences”

OUTSIDE. THE NORMAL RANGE. OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES

that’s… an unusual definition, because trauma to many people includes family dying for example and most people… probably have experienced something like that?

and i mean even if it’s not most people there are millions of people who have trauma so to say that’s “out of the range of normal human experience” is weird, and i also don’t understand the purpose of saying that

OP… your post legit only applies to like financially stable people in positions of power socially…

Sexual abuse, domestic violence, parental neglect, psychological abuse, sexual assault, etc. are traumatic no matter how you spin it, but for disabled people, people of color, lgbt people, poor people, etc. Those are completely normal experiences. They are average. A large amount of people who fit those categories go through them or witness them happening to someone close to them.

For whole groups of people, trauma is entirely normal.

Abuse and assault are normal. Being poor is normal. Bigotry and Discrimination are normal.

Maybe if you come from a middle class family in the suburbs trauma isn’t normal but otherwise: it’s normal.

The kids on tumblr you’re convinced don’t know what real trauma is have probably actually gone through some real violence and terror in their lives.