Nah, I never joke about Jello, Popsicles, and Soup Broth…
Indeed, I am!
I’m a disability advocate whose triggers are Jello, Popsicles, and Soup Broth.
I legit just lost a follower over this.
They must be really big fans of Jello and/or Popsicles and/or Soup Broth.
For those who have trouble detecting sarcasm - the last sentence about them being fans of said foods was sarcastic. But a few people have really unfollowed me over this.
The other three replies, including the original, are serious.
Jello, Popsicles, and Soup Broth are my legit triggers. I would never joke about that.
I know it sounds bizarre. But trust me, I’m serious.
(I’m also not a big fan of fluorescent lights.)
It should be noted that I haven’t received this many death threats since the Great Snape War of 2013.
This is by far my favorite reply:
All right, folks, take your seats, because class is now in session! Let’s have a little talk…
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s Saturday, but learning is fun.
I’ve had seven surgeries in my lifetime and will probably have many more in the future. And one such surgery, which happened about nine years ago, involved really fun (*sarcasm*) things like tubes that are shoved up your nose and end up in your stomach (I know, I didn’t think it was possible either until they did it), eight gallons of really disgusting fluid, pain, lots of pain, and the direct order that I had to evacuate every single bit of food that was inside me.
And that was before the surgery even began!
After the surgery, I had to stay in the hospital for about a month.
And I was on what’s called a clear-liquid diet.
What’s a clear-liquid diet?
For this particular hospital:
Water, Jello, Popsicles, and Soup Broth.
A meal that was delivered to my hospital room three times a day.
That’s all I was allowed to eat.
For those of you who enjoy doing math: I was in the hospital for a month, which is roughly 30 days. I had to eat this meal three times a day. That’s 90 bowls of soup broth, 90 containers of Jello, and 90 Popsicles. Ninety times I had to eat these things. In the span of a month. 90.
Which means that nine years later, I am actually physically unable to eat these three items without vomiting. It’s a sensory trigger.
So why didn’t I talk about this from the beginning instead of enduring four death-threats, six unfollows, and nineteen messages/comments (not including the death threats and the ones that just said ‘Popsicles, Jello, Soup Broth’ over and over again)?
Well, there’s two reasons.
A.) I don’t have to. People don’t ever have to explain why something is triggering to them. Once they say that it is, it should just be a given.
And
B.) The above comment is right. I am a disability advocate. And part of that advocacy includes advocating on behalf of people with triggers. And so, you’ve all been part of a social experiment for the past few hours - an experiment to see how people react when they see that someone has really bizarre triggers (out-of-context).
And I’m a bit sad to say that many of you have failed. Even other people with triggers and/or other advocates.
So listen because this is really important:
I know that triggers are a sensitive subject and I know that there are people out there who do joke about them.
But there are even more people out there who have triggers that seem really bizarre and even silly.
And you know what?
You cannot invalidate those triggers.
You cannot assume that someone is joking, you cannot assume that they’re mocking other people with triggers that are more commonplace or ‘sensible’, you cannot assume that they are anything less than genuine.
If someone tells you that they have a trigger, you need to believe them, no matter how bizarre it might seem.
Class Dismissed.
I have a similar response to chicken broth/soup, graham crackers, jello, applesauce and pudding, and a lot of my friends who have stayed in the hospital for long periods of time with massive diet restrictions have the same or at least similar triggers. A trigger isn’t always the result of abuse, it’s the result of a bad time. But even some triggers from abuse are weird too. Staplers are one for me because when I was little my abuser would threaten to staple different parts of my body. It’s really immature of people to assume that if its not a ‘normal’ trigger (wtf does that even mean??) it’s not really a trigger.
If anybody of you are triggered by anything I post or reblog PLEASE TELL ME, I will answer your asks privately and tag any post needed. And I’ll try and remember to tag any post containing such content. Also if you feel the need to, unfollow me if my content is constantly hurting you, your safety is more important than me.
The best video ever posted on the internet is the scene from american psycho where they’re comparing business cards but someone edited it so they’re comparing like ridiculous forum signatures
I’m forever banned from stepping foot on what is virtually 1/5th of Scotland’s landmass.
For those of you wondering, it involved my disgruntled ancestor, the modern day equivalent of a 5 dollar refund, angry townspeople, and a ban on my entire bloodline until the end of time.
I really want to hear this story
If this gets to a hundred notes, I’ll give you more details.
Alright, gather around. So way way back in the 1700′s, my respectable relative decided that they wanted to go traveling. Their crops had come in on time, they weren’t dying of tuberculosis, and, for once, the English weren’t trying to kill them. So, naturally, they ventured South to a small village in the Hebrides for a nice ‘tropical’ vacation. Upon reaching said village, they came across an inn.
Now, the Scottish, being the wild party animals that they are, were having a dance that night. This dance must have looked like a lot of fun, because my relative in question decided to pay a modest fee of what would be 5 dollars in today’s world to get in. Everything was going great, until 10 minutes later, the inn decided to close for the night. My dude was NOT having it. They demanded a refund, but the innkeeper said no.
Shenanigans promptly ensued. They wanted their 5 dollars, and by God, THEY WOULD GET IT. Unfortunately, there was a no refund policy. I don’t know what was worse, the fact that they were robbed of 5 bucks, or that they were thrown so violently off their groove. I will never know what really happened next that night that was so bad, so awful, so absolutely mortifying that it warranted exile, but one can’t help but imagine. Was it murder? Heresy? A combination of both?
In the end, the townspeople chased them off, banished them, and cursed their very name. If they, or any of their children, or their children’s children’s children decided to step foot back on that island, there would be goddamn hell to pay.
If I could choose to travel back in time to any one place, it would be this very same event. I mean, I have questions. Did my ancestor kick ass and take names, or did they get their ass kicked? What else would they do for 5 dollars? Was wreaking havoc on a small town and forever shaming the family name worth it? Was it honestly worth the 5 fricking dollars?
Every fandom is shit. No fandom is pure. If you say your fandom is pure and hasn’t done anything wrong, then you’re part of the reason it’s trash.
That being said, you can gauge how bad a fandom is by the general consensus within the fandom on it’s purity status. homestucks, bronies and superwholocks know their fandoms are trash. The worst they do is porn and shoving the fandom crap in your face. occasionally harass someone off of tumblr. And they acknowledge these things happen.
The SU fandom has ruined a small business and tried to barr an entire fandom from “joining” because they were afraid it would “taint their pure fandom” as though there wasn’t already porn of the gems. Like, the reason why it’s a rule of the internet that if it exists there is porn of it. there’s been porn since episode two, long before it became wildly popular. They’ve driven people to near suicide over headcanons and then when the show writers said people are free to have their own headcanons, the fandom harassed the writers off of twitter. And they continue to harass people for headcanons. People who say that headcanoning a character as bi is apparently lesbophobic. And I’ve seen the same people who say that then spout biphobic and acephobic crap. The steven universe is trash. it’s the worst fandom I have ever seen. and they still claim their fandom is pure.
I only hope that one day there will be an episode to address horrible fans, because the writers are clearly done with your shit.
For fucks sakes it’s cartoon for crying out loud, we get it you fucking love the show! That doesn’t mean you need to go all superwholock on people just because they say otherwise, Especially not to the people who work on the show. Like what the fuck, who does that!?
at this point, that sounds more like an insult to superwholock than to steven universe fandom.
You’re right, at least SWL never harassed the creators of their respective shows.(or at least haven’t seen anything about it.)
well, they sent death threats to the amanda abbington because the sherlock portion of SWL wanted martin freeman and benadict cumberbatch to be gay so bad but the harassment wasn’t enough to drive her off twitter.
A: (Rebecca): It’s August 15th, it’s my brother’s birthday. Because canonically the episode aired in January, nowhere near August 15th. But I feel like he’s certainly a Leo.
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