if it was categorised as statutory rape, it's unlikely that the event itself was as traumatising as a more violent crimeuhh however reading the article real quick:
The girl said she had been loveually abused by her stepfather, 42-year-old Gilberto Benitez Zarate.
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is this vague falsification or is the article straight-up wrong... or perhaps it was actually legitimately a loveual assault and she didn't tell anyone because that's often the case with abuse? i don't really know the details but i'm more concerned about other things being said right now
regardless, if anyone is trying to claim trauma exists.. um.. wat.. like seriously is that actually a claim being made.. i mean i get the whole thing that people can be convinced that there's something wrong with them, that's defo true, but the two things aren't mutually exclusive...
trauma is a legitimate psychological response to an event. people that go through trauma often have to find ways to move on, because the effects of trauma are disruptive to normal living. after the event, the individual
is likely to be confused, not because they don't understand that it was bad, but because they don't understand how to deal with it or are in denial of the problem. i don't really think it's a fair estimation of the human mind to assume that people are unable to determine the severity of something that happened to them. a ten year old child that has already begun puberty, for instance, would likely have the mental capacity to determine if they don't want their step-father loveually assaulting them
also ptsd and trauma are fairly different. someone doesn't have ptsd after a traumatic event, they have it after symptoms worsen and stay consistent for long periods of time and remain disruptive to every day living (which is what constitutes a disorder in general)
its hard for a first world person to understand. kids here are taught to be traumatized by specific things, before it ever happens to them.
a kid in some dump country can suck richards to feed their sick mother their entire childhood. and grow up in a fine mental state. because that is the perspective.
but here, a kid gets a snake flashes at them in the park, and they are curled up in the shower stuffting themselves for months.
trauma is taught and learned.
technically the idea here isn't far-off even though the way it's presented is goofy as heck
in a less-trying-to-invalidate-people's-problems wording:
what is traumatising to an individual is highly dependent upon their perspective towards the event. if a culture views giraffes as a highly sacred animal, it'll likely be significantly more traumatising to an individual in that culture to see a giraffe hunted than it would be for an individual without that perspective. this doesn't mean that their problem is invalid because of that relativity, it's simply an acknowledgement that societies can differ in what they value and in what they view as offensive.
