I can’t comment right now because I was trying to comfort someone. They got upset over something that was similar to something traumatizing in their past, despite hardly ever thinking about it anymore due to it being several years ago (happened when they were a toddler, teen now) so I was telling them that that was normal and a similar thing happened to me. I told them a brief summary of my trauma and the trigger, and then scratch blocked out my comment.
The comment: “That lady was a jerk. If you got sloppy, thats means you’d need more practice, not more laps. And yes, it’s certainly possible to get triggered by past trauma even if you barely think about it anymore. That’s just a thing that happens! It’s happened to me. I freaked out after seeing a clock because it reminded me of the school where I was bullied and pushed to the point of needing a hospital to stop me from un-aIiving myself (I’m okay now!)” The word was “aIiving”
