poor person: i cant afford things that are regular and daily costs, such as food, and gas
rich person: OH BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT ONE TIME PURCHASE YOU MADE AFTER YOU GOT YOUR TAXES BACK WHERE YOU GOT 50 DOLLAR SHOES IN MAY 2004????????
poor person: ???? do you understand how money works or do you just pretend everything you say is a profound gotcha moment without considering maybe you’re not wise or knowledgeable in the slightest when it comes to poverty
Lets add to this. Do you know how agonizing it is to make that $50 purchase? You pick them up and put them down, thinking about all the things that could go wrong right after you spend that money. You work hard and you are on your feet hours at a time, but you can’t do that in cheap shoes and you know that but you think about light bills, oil changes another 50 spent in decent food. It goes on and on. What I don’t want to think about is the guilt that comes with the spending of 50 for a decent pair of shoes.
as someone who lives with a mumbler, “brain” and “green” sound very similar when mumbled. that’s not surprising, that’s not witchcraft, that’s mumbling
but I can only hear “needle” and don’t get how you can hear “storm”.
they neither start nor end the same way. there isn’t even the same number of syllables.
That’s why it’s so freaky (Nb: I can hear both)
Yeah, I can hear both depending on which one I’m thinking about, and either way they sound pretty clear and not like sort-of-one-and-sort-of-the-other. It just straight out sounds COMPLETELY different depending on which one I’m thinking about. I don’t understand how either.
(Although I assume I could understand if I did some research. Basically, brains are fucking weird.)
I think it’s the same phenomenon when someone points out that song lyrics sound like *insert something ridiculous here* and then you can’t unhear it. Like your brain can be nudged to be predisposed to see/hear certain things and this isn’t any different. I guess it’s like the audio version of those uhh, foreground/background optical illusions. Except we’re used to visual tricks and not audio ones so much.
Yeah, I can hear both depending which one I think about.
You’re right about song lyrics, too. I heard “wrecking ball” as “rainbow” for the longest time and it’s still starbucks lovers in that one Taylor Swift song haha
As someone with auditory processing disorder, this is hysterical to watch from the perspective of an outsider.
I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.
Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed
If I recall, they did used to be the corresponding months. It was just when Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Augustus came into power, the months July(Julius) and August(Augustus) were added, thus throwing off the numbering of the calender.
Good news, though: whoever fucked it up did in fact get stabbed.
In case anyone wants some perspective on how utterly random triggers can be. I haven’t lived in a house with a garage door in four-ish years. Right now at this moment, I honestly can’t recall what they sound like, except something metallic moving and rather clanky.
There was one on tv. I wasn’t even paying attention to it, I had my headphones on and was actively trying to tune the show out. My ears picked up on the sound of the garage door, and a jolt of adrenaline shot through my body as I grabbed my laptop and moved to get out of my seat and run to my room.
I realized what happened after about two seconds.
The sound is gone from my ears, but my heart is still racing and I’m waiting for the door to the house to open, to hear the jingling of my mother’s keys and her footsteps moving through the house. My muscles are still tense and I’m fighting the urge to run to my room and stick a board in front of the door.
For years, the sound of a garage door was my warning to pack up what I was doing quickly and retreat to my room if I was out of it.
I can’t remember the sound of the garage door right now, but I can’t tell my brain to stop trying to react to it.
This can be reblogged, if anyone was wondering. I wrote up this post with the intention that hopefully people who read it and didn’t really get triggers would understand a bit.
So, a thing that’s particularly important here: The trigger here is not the bad experience itself.
after my super funtime medical adventure, i had to change all my bath products, because my brain had associated the scent of them with being terrified and in extreme pain.
these were products i had chosen myself because i liked the smell. and they got connected to the medical phobia because i was using them to wash off the hospital reek and the fear sweat and so forth. i don’t know why they became a trigger. maybe because washing off the hospital smell didn’t make me not in pain. maybe because their ‘fresh pine ocean breeze bluegreen spicy stuff’ smell didn’t really replace the hospital stench, just mingled with it.
but for whatever reason, smelling these objectively nice soaps made me do flashbacks and get all hopeless and wobbly. so they had to go.
triggers are random. they’re often something that was simply present during a trauma, and you can’t guess what they’ll be. no one who hasn’t heard me explain this would ever associate suave naturals ocean breeze body wash with unbearable abdominal pain. so i guess the takeaways here are twofold:
– if you have triggers, remember other people can’t predict them, and don’t expect to be protected from them all the time. that’s up to you.
– if you don’t have triggers, don’t assume you can judge what a ‘real’ trigger is, and if someone asks you to accomodate them, don’t be a dick about it. even if you don’t want to make that accomodation, decline politely and apologize, don’t disparage their request.
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