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tickets to the gilroy garlic festival just went on sale. i'm sorry for the wait but i wanted to get mine. see you on the friday

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[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Scary, to say the least. Has it affected you long term? I’d imagine it’d leave someone with PTSD, even if you weren’t really close to it.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I wasn't shot, so it's not the same suffering as others went through. I'm not sure if I have PTSD from it. I think a lot of Americans get a feeling of disgust when hearing the minimization of gun violence.

It wasn't the only mass causality event I lived through. I don't feel the need to share the stories with most people in my life but if the topics come up, I'm comfortable sharing my experiences.

so, i've got ptsd from a few different events and only the worst one fucked with my memory. strangely, that's the one i wanted to forget and i forgot like, almost everything before it. so like it's where my memory begins. yaaaaaaay.