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noblest-roman-of-them-all · 1 year ago

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Some of y'all can't handle the concept of certain abuses existing in the first place, muchless a character who went through that abuse and is now showing realistic symptoms of said abuse.

"we need more traumatized characters/characters with ptsd and/or who are abuse victims portrayed realistically with symptoms that Arent cute and soft and pretty!" you guys couldnt even handle lapis lazuli

#i am tired and upset #i have two wips in which the characters went through the same truama i did #i gave them both a lot of my symptoms and triggers #now one i have posted a few chapters of and it's been fine but it to this point hasnt been very...'gritty' shall we say #it still meets the definition of a certain type of abuse but it's been fairly clinical thus far #the other #the other i dont know if i will post it becaus it is much more emotionally charged and less clinical #in it the mc becomes triggered by seeing a small child and realizing how small and young he was when he was abused #which isn't a thing most people want to be faced with #but it is my reality and it is the reality of unfortunately a large amount of people #and i believe we deserve stories that feature people like us with triggers like ours #but #the amount of people who arent ready for those is...also a lot #people want realistic trauma stories until they are faced with the concept of abuse happening to children they want to turn away from that #and understandably so #but many of us cant turn away because it is our reality and while writing gives externalization and processing #it also opens us up to being harrassed and bullied because people take their discomfort about those topics #and rather than acknowledging that those things happening to children is wrong and can be prevented #they turn away from it and accuse us of glorifying abuse or accuse us of being the same as the people who hurt us #they dont want to face and accept the idea that those stories come from a place of personal experience because then #theyre faced with our realities that these things happen to children #so instead they look away and say 'no thats not realistic youre just being gross'#people want realistic trauma stories until theyre faced with realistic trauma #screaming into the void #im tired of being a quiet victim #anyone wanna take a guees what trauma im refering to? ill give you a hint you cant search it on tumblr anymore #its restricted so if anyone needs help or resources check out rainn.org they have a lot of good resources and definitions there #and please more than anything know that you are not alone

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