Gatekeeping is also not very helpful. Perhaps it’s better to listen and try to understand other people’s experiences, because everyone experiences the world in different ways and intensity. Talking about a trauma is not a competition. It’s a cry for help and for empathy, no matter whether it fulfills your definition of the word.
There are words that are used as scientific terms in one way and differently by common people. The fact that someone doesn’t use the word as it is used in science doesn’t mean that the information they’re trying to communicate is not important. It’s necessary to use empathy to be able to understand even those people who use words differently from how they’re used in your bubble.
Gatekeeping is also not very helpful. Perhaps it’s better to listen and try to understand other people’s experiences, because everyone experiences the world in different ways and intensity. Talking about a trauma is not a competition. It’s a cry for help and for empathy, no matter whether it fulfills your definition of the word.
It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a medical definition.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
You’re not OCD because you sorted Skittles by color once either.
There are words that are used as scientific terms in one way and differently by common people. The fact that someone doesn’t use the word as it is used in science doesn’t mean that the information they’re trying to communicate is not important. It’s necessary to use empathy to be able to understand even those people who use words differently from how they’re used in your bubble.