Or they’ll still have little money and only now can afford to even think about marrying and still will buy a teeny-tiny ring without a diamond, because why even diamonds? :P I mean, if they are too poor to even marry right now, who says they’ll have plenty in five years?

Especially if they become so heavy they become dangerous to the safety of the bridge as happened in Amsterdam recently.

But no one is saying people with PTSD are going to shield themselves by not going to class. Again, they are going to be able to prepare for class in whatever way they need, and not going at all is not the first or the only option.

The course itself has to have zero changes though. Just a title/label/content warning like films already have.

Then perhaps those people with PTSD should ask for trigger warnings, you mean? Then sure. There are some in this very comment thread who are doing so.

I did a cursory google search and rape, combat, torture and abuse are listed as the most common causes. So those to start. I’m no psychologist but I’m sure there is a list of causes that can serve as guidence.

You keep saying that people with PTSD are incapable, the point is not to not engage with whatever subject, the point is to be able to prepare.

Been to uni, studied linguistics and literature so your condescending tone could go away. It takes all but three seconds for a teacher or professor to add a line to a syllabus, as in some of the works contain X. And as I have said countless times before, the point is not never to get exposed to possibly triggering…

Depends what’s in the syllabus. If it says we will discuss Tess of D’Ubervilles, not enought details. If it says this book has scenes of rape (or torture, or combat or whatever) then I would think a syllabus is enough. If it doesn’t say that it would help if a professor could say something like that the week before.…

We did have some sort of syllabus, in that there was a stack of papers and/or a book list, but it was at best very succint and at worst just that stack of papers.

I don’t think everyone needs to do an alternative assignment, just a heads-up so they can mentally prepare and/or take extra medication, a trusted person or something. An alternative assignment is really only in extreme cases.

Also fun, abortion is totally okay in the bible. You just have to be a man who thinks his wife cheated. The priest then makes an abortion drink and if the abortion works she cheated. See? Abortion; totally okay with god if you cheated.

Shit, I had hoped feet would bounce back or something. :( My feet are already too big to find nice shoes for. Please tell me your mum is an exception... ;) (disclaimer: not pregnant as of yet, just planning to be in the not too far future)

Um,the fact that someone with PTSD or other mental illness will be unable to take that class, and will be unfairly excluded. It’s called discrimination. So yeah, a good syllabus will probably solve most of this, but not all teachers offer this.

I think you and others miss something important. Trigger warnings are not “let’s not talk about it ever”, they are “we are going to talk about X, if that’s painful or triggering to you, make sure you prepare in whatever way possible and/or contact the teacher to do an alternative assignment”. There is a big difference.

The point is not to avoid the topics. The point is to prepare for the topics so you can avoid a breakdown in class. That’s what a trigger warning is for. Those people who wish to avoid the class altogether can do so if it’s not compulsory. People drop out of or don’t take classes all the time for various reasons. And…

Nope, there are mulitple discussions going on. Not just the one you participate in.

That’s great. Didn’t happen for me though. Giant stacks of copies of literary works and secondary literature, and no content, no list of authors, no page numbers, no nothing. Just, read everything before the first class. Not all courses did that (or even would be able to do so) but enough that even I (no PTSD or other…

Foodbanks here (Netherlands) always have fresh vegetables in the boxes. There are websites dedicated to helping people find recipes with veggies that might be unfamiliar to them or to find different recipes for pumpkins, because they got pumpkins three times in a row. I know the fruit and veg is mostly donated from…

I read somewhere else in the thread that supermarkets in France were liable if someone got sick after eating their food. Even the food in the dumpster, hence the bleach.