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Ok, just a general announcement.

ONE, "trigger warnings" are for COMMON triggers only. Things like talk of rape, abuse, child abuse, eating disorders, self-harm, serious drug use, and suicide are common triggers. Less common ones are homo/transphobia/gender dysphoria, blood, needles, knives -- or traumatic events (Holocaust, genocides, earthquakes, 9/11, you know what I'm talking about). Gender identity is not a common trigger. Food is not a common trigger. Mudkips (mudkips, really?) are not a common trigger. Someone just gave me a secret with a trigger warning listed for a whole movie. No. You are doing triggers wrong.

TWO, RFTM. Or the FAQs, at least.
They're right here: http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/104153.html
- Why isn't my secret up!?!? Question 4.
- Why is the subs post closed!?!? Question 9.
- How come my second secret got posted before the first!? Is it lost!?!? Question 7.
- HOW DOES I JOINED!? IT'S THE FIRST QUESTION.

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That's it. (:

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Triggers are for emotional children. I've been through some shit but don't freak out when a secret deals with that topic. Grow up, people. If you aren't old enough/mature enough to handle it, find another community to read. Hopefully one without child abuse, rape, eating disorders, crime, or mudkips.

Glad to know my PTSD makes me a ~child~, emotionally. Way to fail and not understand anything about triggers. I guess because YOU'RE fine, the rest of us should just ~bootstrap~ our way through it, huh?

It's a physiological response (fight or flight - heart rate, sweat glands, feelings of unreality, an irrepressible need to run or escape, aka PANIC) to a reminder of trauma that is entirely involuntary. What you're saying is like telling someone they're a baby for not being able to stop a sneeze. INVOLUNTARY. It has NOTHING to do with being "mature enough" to handle it. Thanks for your incredibly ignorant idiot-splanation, though.