#a friend of mine accidentally broke her daughter's nose after the teen snuck up on her in the house with a plastic training gun
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[ID: Tweets from roo (@MorganFailchild) that read: " Listen, if you sneak up on someone to grab them as a joke & they elbow you in the diaphragm as hard as possible: that's your fault. Your entire goal was to startle, some [people's] startle response limbic hijack mode is "fight", you ran the risk of that happening & you still did it.
I'm just sick of the "oh my god what's your problem" [quote in all caps] reaction when it's like I dunno man you triggered a deeply entrenched survival instinct for a laugh & it didn't work out for you, maybe shut the fuck up."
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#anecdotes#personal space#startle reactions#sneaking up on people#I am a freezer by instinct#but i trained in martial arts for most of a decade so if something reads as a threat something is getting punched#a friend of mine accidentally broke her daughter's nose after the teen snuck up on her in the house with a plastic training gun#on the other side i am accidentally pretty quiet and have learned to announce myself from a good distance from people#how about we all keep our hands to ourselves#especially when there's dangerous tools involved jfc
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