you rly feel that under-presentation for PTSD when talking about uncommon triggers, now I think. 💀 it's Common to have specific / "unusual" triggers related to your trauma. of course, it's weird to go around and expect people to put TWs for things that are considered normal / non-triggering, but I'm sick of people going in response, "Who would even get triggered by that? You're the only weirdo here." no, actually I'm pretty sure there is at least 5 people with that trigger.
where do you think hypervigilance, random dissociative episodes and mood swings come from in PTSD? often from the fact that we have specific triggers that we cannot quite avoid, because it's a regular thing in daily life, or because we don't even know what's the exact trigger is, how to describe it to avoid it. or that the trigger is a Specific Situation, so while you can avoid "TW abuse" labeled stuff or such, you can't know if the abuse is similar to your experience or not. sometimes you get triggered, sometimes you don't.
you know what's my weird indescribable trigger is? when you're excited to have a good time or you are having a good time, but it goes really fucking wrong and upsetting cuz of a small unimportant thing. nothing UPSETS me like seeing / hearing someone expect to have fun, and then something fucks up and they are not having fun. it happened to me repeatedly that I'll go from "yay I'm spending time with both my parents <3" to "why do y'all always have to fucking argue over smallest things. I don't want to be here anymore." even writing this makes me quite sad and tearful.
or one of my weird triggers is seeing cars irl. like, just normal fucking cars. especially if they're in motion. I associate them with my mother and I always feel watched if there is a car anywhere nearby, even if it's supposedly empty.
