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AussieTrumpFan 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think it goes further than that. Take a look at what a lot of combat troops have returned with - PTSD to some extent. It's almost the last illness / injury that a normal person is allowed to have.

Earned in combat or as a first responder in life and death situations, it's a horrifyingly debilitating illness / injury / wound, and most who have it would rather you just left them alone while they try to function in the fucked up world around them. There are other ways it can be earned, too, each of them horrific in their own way.

Then comes the woke brigade, who claim PTSD from having fired an AR-15, or because you said "Good Morning" to them, and slap trigger warnings on everything possible while they self-diagnose and flap about how damaged they are, but it's okay they'll get through it because they're strong and have you tried Chamomile Tea? Because that's what they used to cure their PTSD...

Meanwhile, those who suffer will silently cower further into the corner and hope no one looks their way and the batshit brigade will fuck off and find something else to blather about. If they wanted accommodation for their illness, they would have quietly asked you for it, or just not done it in the first place.

You don't fucking fix a panic disorder by making a public scene and big song and dance about it.

Don't make a fucking scene, just treat them and their service animal (if they have one) with simple human respect and dignity, and we'll all go a long way to inclusion for those who really need it.

But, of course, you don't get woke points or Twitter fame with an approach like that. And those who struggle with treatment are far more likely to make the news by how they end it, rarther than how they live with it.