A Channel Where No One Would Reply At All Except Rarily To Make My Experiences Into A Joke - Tumblr Posts
3 months ago
Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
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remember that friend group where i was only allowed to talk about my life in a vent channel in their discord
a channel where no one would reply at all except rarily to make my experiences into a joke
these were REAL LIFE friends
i was not allowed to talk except happy-go-lucky shit IN REAL LIFE with them
and they used all sorts of therapy speak to justify this
this is where my hatred of the misuse of traumadumping stems from
it took me way too long to figure out that they weren't good and supportive friends at all because they prided themselves on being that
and used terminology to support it. meanwhile i did not get to be myself at all
anyway sorry to add a vent on the what is venting post but. yeah