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comment by War

I thought that SJW thing was an internet thing.

Interesting story. Was taking a creative writing class maybe my first year of college. We had this assignment where we had to write a short piece on an event in as much detail as we could possibly fit in. This dude in the class wrote about a scene of two people fighting (It was a pretty good piece). This really quiet woman in the class gets up and walks out. It was a small class, and everyone kind of noticed. Like 15 minutes later she comes back in, and the class continues. After class we were all talking outside, and the dude makes a rude comment about her leaving. She then continued to explain to all of us that maybe a year ago she got out of really violent relationship with a guy. His scene of a fight served as a trigger, and she walked out to compose herself. She asked if we could avoid it the best we could, but that she would most likely excuse herself as to not ruin discussion. We did our best to help her out though.

Point of the story is that if you have a serious issue, or condition to let people know. It shouldn't be an issue if you ask people to do their best to avoid the subject especially if it something easy to avoid. In the case above physical violence was sometimes a trigger for her. She didn't expect us to avoid it entirely, but to do our best. If anyone has an issue with that it would probably be best to distance yourself from them because those aren't the best type of people to be around.