![[CW: the most embarrassing liberalism that might actually give you a concussion] People are dying and they still think they can solve this with civil protest](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/80da2324-d2e4-406c-a62e-ea0158ea43fc.jpeg){kind=link}
Hoping to hell that’s an AI or a bot because this might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
Before you get depressed, know that there are people who actually are calling this shit out and there are people who are suggesting actual helpful techniques in that sub. But damn, that particular post was wow.
Anyway, I’m not going back to the reddit mines for a while.
Probably haven’t had to go through shit nearly as awful as you, but I know that feeling of some people (especially older people) just thinking you are lying about your trauma.
Thanks, homie. I don’t really enjoy comparing traumas, and see little utility in comparative analysis of trauma, but it sure wasn’t great. My heart hurts hearing that you or anyone else has had their trauma and experience denied — especially when people then take the line of, “well, surely, you must have done something to have deserved such treatment.” Actually, the only thing I did was be born to a poor teenage woman who I’ve never known, who couldn’t afford to care for me, and, well, one thing led to another and there you have it.
Anyways, no person, child or adult, deserves the experiences endured by myself or my cohort in those institutions. It’s really telling that so many people believe there are people — children — deserving of such treatment. Of my cohort, I’m one of the lucky few that are still alive, not in prison, housed, reasonably healthy, and whose material needs are mostly met.
Yeah, exactly, it isn’t some kind of “suffering olympics” or whatever, it’s about making the world a better place so this sort of stuff doesn’t happen to anyone, children especially.