Posted by Larry Hoover on March 4, 2006, at 14:57:40
In reply to Re: what does 'trigger' mean, posted by Larry Hoover on March 3, 2006, at 8:52:06
"She saw me crying, she heard my death threats, she knew about me buying a rope."
Here's an example that I just stumbled onto, in an unmarked thread, on the Social Board.
I bring it up because it's not a prime example of what triggers me, but because it is on the fringe. In my ideal world, that post would require a trigger warning, because it explicitly describes a suicidal mechanism. I know someone who used to post here, and he was the one that found his mother, in a rope. He told me that he had been triggered by a similar post, that he naively stumbled onto. Just as I did, a moment ago. I haven't seen him since.
I guess I want to speak for perhaps the most vulnerable people who post here. The sensitized. The ones with wounds that haven't yet healed. May not ever heal.
We were forced, by wilful people, to design public buildings to accomodate wheelchairs. So that a whole class of people would not be denied full public participation because of their history.
I am a wilful person, asking for more than courtesy to be extended to the sensitized people who would love to share in the warmth of the Babble community. As it is now, the structure has been built so as to exclude a whole class of people, because of their history.
Let's fix that.
Lar
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