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Why is it that well-meaning people fail to understand when people have issues, even emotional landmines, about certain subjects, and still keep banging on about them.

Are they simply clueless? Do they not listen? Or is it that they say things so they can hear themselves talk? What?

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[hammercock.livejournal.com]

they treated it the revelation that the conversation was really upsetting me because I am a sexual abuse "survivor" was some totally unanticipatable "what are the odds" kind of fact.

Gah, this kind of thing makes me so angry. I happen to know that I know quite a few people who have experienced sexual trauma of various kinds, and it's not as if the stats aren't out there that show that a frighteningly large percentage of the population are survivors. One doesn't have to know that one knows any survivors to know that it's probable that one actually knows several.