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11:37am April 24, 2014

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I’ve never seen jokes about “flashbacks to [trivial/embarassing thing]” as making fun of PTSD or had a problem with them. Does anyone else who actually has PTSD take issue with it, or is this another thing abled people made up to try to ignore actual issues?

I have PTSD, and I’m not only not offended by it, I do it.  I don’t know how other people feel, but to me ‘flashback’ isn’t a protected concept.

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  1. peaches-and-cannibalism reblogged this from slashmarks
  2. slashmarks reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    an additional good point
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  4. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from slashmarks and added:
    I have PTSD, and I’m not only not offended by it, I do it. I don’t know how other people feel, but to me ‘flashback’...
  5. katisconfused said: I would be hesitant to ever police that even if the idea did offend me because I am pretty sure you can get flashbacks with lots of anxiety issues and they are rather common? Like I just assume everyone making the jokes are joking about themselves.