We understand spoiler alerts. Why don’t we understand trigger warnings?
Kate Norquay
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But where do we draw line?
You speak from the point of view of sexual assault because is what you experienced, but where do we draw the line?
I must not talk about the war movie I saw yesterday because a veteran suffering from PTSD might be among the group that hears me talking?
I must give trigger warning if I’m going to talk about crime rates because someone might have been injured or lost a family member in a street robbery?
I could give many more examples but the points is that life can have terrible experiences that leave us marked for life, but it’s not possible for us to give trigger warnings for every form of written or verbal communication that could trigger traumatic memories to someone, we would not be able to communicate properly.