George Bonanno
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364 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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And one of the teachers told me that one of the children's parents had lost a parent over the summer break.
And she didn't know what to do when the child came back to the class.
She asked me if she could talk with me about it.
And she said, what should I do?
And I said, maybe nothing.
And she was quite taken aback by that.
But the point I made to her was, you know, maybe this child doesn't want a lot of attention called to him.
Maybe he wants to just be a normal kid in the class.
Let it play out and see what happens.
Trigger warnings were born out of the idea that everybody's, well, there's a widespread idea that people have hidden traumas lurking inside them or past traumas that were unresolved and they're kind of somehow raw inside people.
That's a very common, became a very common assumption.
And the trigger warning idea emerged from that as a kind of a way to say, you know, if anybody's got a trauma here in this room or has a
trauma lurking inside them.
We're going to show some content here.
You're going to experience something if you stay for this presentation that might trigger that.
And it was based on the idea that everybody's kind of walking around with these barely below the surface traumas that can explode at any point.
And that's really not accurate in any sense of the word.
There's really
I think we couldn't function as human beings if we were actually built like that.
And the research on trigger warnings has shown fairly convincingly that they either don't help or they cause harm.
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