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⌈ Secret Post #3741 ⌋

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Comments

Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

What are somethings you don't expect to bother you so much but do. Inspired by yesterday's posts.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

mine obviously is people injecting themselves. *shudder* just a shot of being injected is total NOPE.

(also injecting yourself in the TONGUE?? Who does that> Ouch!)

I honestly didn't expect it to bother me so much but damn.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

Is that a trigger or a massive squick, though?

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[tabaqui]

He licked the needle, right before he injected himself, so not actually doing an injection.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

...oh...well okay then. I guess I can look at it now.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[tabaqui]

Heeee. It's all in the brain. :)

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

Bullying, except if the character has some kind of happy ending or there's a "comfort" to the "hurt". I wasn't bullied myself, but I just get really upset reading about characters getting bullied. It's the worst if they are side characters who just exist to make the audience feel bad and never get a happy ending.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[philstar22]

This, though I was bullied. But for me, even though I was bullied by peers as well, the biggest trigger is adults bullying kids.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

Close ups of bellybuttons, especially outies. I don't know why, but they just gross me out.

Also jokes about dehumanising the poor or service workers just so some rich white guy can get some yucks. Its punching down at its worst.

Reminder that many prominent UK Conservative Politicians used to be a member of a club that required them to burn 50GBP notes in front of homeless people and then piss on them, just as an alternative to hazing.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

Bellybuttons kind of gross me out, too. It'd be like a close-up inside someone's nostril. From a distance, they are whatever, just a part of humans. But in-depth discussion of belly buttons or close shots or whatever somehow elicits that disgusted feeling in me.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[morieris]

Giant cartoonish bears.

Let me clarify - the Berenstain Bears don't bother me. Bewear kind of does. That giant mutated teddy bear in AKIRA? That started it and I just get mildly uncomfortable when something similar appears.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

When characters have anxiety attacks and we get to hear their "everyone and everything is doomed" thoughts. If the character is just having an anxiety attack and we don't get to hear their thoughts, it's sorta okay, but hearing the thoughts reminds me of my own anxiety problems.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

This is going to sound really ridiculous, but Emma Stone is really triggering for my eating disorder. She's the only actress I've had this issue with.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

Characters being denied food as punishment/revenge/etc.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

People smoking pot. I have a very bad family history with a pothead relative so I am very bad company as soon as a "smoking pot is so harmless and fun" scene comes on.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of have the same thing. Not so much the family history, but pot reminds me of unsavory people and I have to work really hard to disconnect the drug from the user. It's still kind of a shock when I find out someone I like smokes.

It's become easier, though, since I've become friends with someone whose smoking habits are similar to how I drink coffee, and who is genuinely a good and pleasant person. If I compare it to coffee drinking and keep my expectations reasonable based on that, other people's pot use is easier to cope with.

Still hate the smell, though, and people who id as stoners put me off, especially if I knew them before they started smoking.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[randomdrops]

Yup, that's me. And people get oddly angry with me if I dare say something about not liking scenes etc like that. I've learned not to mention it and to deflect if asked outright.

I mean, I realize not everyone is the same. I had roommates in college that basically smoked pot like drinking their morning coffee and were perfectly pleasant people. But that association from growing up is very hard to shake.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[skeletal_history]

I'm claustrophobic and sometimes strange things will trigger it. When I saw Finding Nemo in the theater all those years ago, I unexpectedly found myself suddenly on the verge of panicking when Marlin and Dory go way down to the deep dark part of the ocean. Cold sweat, nausea, feeling like my chest was constricted, etc. I had to tell myself, "They're fish, they can breathe down there," while taking slow deep breaths myself and thinking, "See? You can breathe, too. You're okay, you're not drowning."

E: Seeing the Star Wars Christmas Special (which is probably its own trigger) around Christmas time unfortunately hit a squick of mine that doesn't often get hit -- apes or ape-like humanoids being sexually attracted to humans. Something about this grosses me the fuck OUT in a visceral, nauseating way, like I can't even laugh about it.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[(Anonymous)]

late to the party but I don't blame you one damn bit on that ape thing. eurgh.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[philstar22]

Different kind of trigger, but occasionally movies with panoramic sorts of views or just wide spins will trigger my vertigo. The bigger the screen, the stronger the affect. And while space movies don't seem to trigger my vertigo or height issues, movies set at the top of skyscrapers or where you can see out of planes seem to (even the trailer for the Wire made me dizzy).

It is worse in those Over the head IMAX theaters. I have to sit at the top in those.

Re: Unexpected Triggers

[randomdrops]

I was really surprised how much the epilepsy stuff bothered me in Teen Wolf fic. I know I have some issues with that, but some of the fic just ended up causing completely unexpected anxiety and panicky feelings. It's better now, but when I was first reading it that just totally caught me off guard. (My reaction, not the existence of the topic.)

Oh, and characters not being able to breath. Like when Wade Wilson was in that tube and the oxygen was being sucked out...I had to look away and distract myself for a minute because I could feel a sudden panic attack coming on. It doesn't happen all the time, so I was surprised when it did bother me in Deadpool.