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1. Bugsmer fans
2. "Jokes" about k*lling me
3. People messing with me
4. People messing with my stims
5. Being told my interests are for babies
6. Being hurt
7. Being touched

(Although the last 2 and #4 wouldn't really apply here, just applies outside of the internet)

Number 1 just seems like it's just a way for people to agree, not going against your opinion. I feel like it comes from internet old speak where you didn't quote a post on a forum but you do that to agree with a post. Does that make sense?

When I meant 'You' or "Your" I am also saying it in a generalized sense as in this is what happens sometimes on here. People do it to each other just to add discussion.

Mentioning of group homes.
People who hate cats.
People who not only hate cats, but have no problems talking about being cruel to cats or actually doing it.
Seeing disabled people being treated badly or unfairly.
People who think lying is perfectly okay, or that it's even polite to lie. Like when they get angry at you when you eat the last doughnut even though they just said they didn't want it.
Foilhead conspiracy theorists.
Antivaxxers.
Acephobic people.
Vomiting.
Everything and anything to do with the news.
Nukes.
American defaultism (When people from the USA assume everyone else must also be from the same country unless you tell them otherwise, and never think that things may be different in another country.
Politics.
Politicians.
Religious cults like Jehovah's Witnesses.
Obsessions with "celebrities".
Misogyny.
Other women talking about all the horrors they went through during menopause.
Autism $peaks and other autistic "charity groups" similar to them.
People thinking adults who like kid things like toys or cartoons with kid characters must be pedos.
People calling you a furry because you draw cartoon animals. Because furries are horrible people.
People calling you a zoophile because you like animals.

Notice that many of my triggers start with "people". Go figure

^ You have a long list of triggers. I don't know how you cope.

Microsoft's Windows Activation rigamarole...

-Extreme changes in temperatures.
-High humidity.
-Hormonal fluctuations.
-Sometimes, dairy.
-Sometimes, or at least no longer do so far; caffeine...
-Maybe too much starch, and I like potatoes and pasta.
-Painful scents that are actually painful even for NTs to smell...
-Highly acidic foods like citrus despite liking them...


Wait, this is about the head and not the body?

-Being surprised (which is surprising -- pun intended, though it's rare that surprise itself happens to me)
-Relentless interruptions of sneezing or not breathing properly.
-Extreme Injustices
Specific expectations and failing it
-Inconsistencies of intent and actions (of self and other, self especially)
-The knowledge gap - missing details, no fundamentals, forced to observe and no asking due to assumptions that 'should already know', etc.
-The concept of business itself - opportunism, finance, anything to do with money
-Extremists views especially those who are so hung up on one specific view, reference or experience (more so when the reason is 'love' or 'compassion' or 'for the good of others')
-Just being provoked yet unable to control my reaction in general.
-Overall helplessness, lack of autonomy in general.


It's not the quantity that mattered to me.
It's the frequency chance of happening.

And these are more like my list of dislikes than true triggers.
Though, the reaction of true triggers for me are not common. It can happen when my defences were low, tensions high, sudden and unexpected, in dysregulated states with an emotionality of a gas coated wick.


Since about a month ago, I don't know how much any of these are true anymore.

Gained Number Post Count (1).
Lose Time (n).

Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

phone banks especially those to which there is no way out (I like talking to real people)

My upstairs neighbour who stomps around throughout the night sounding like Godzilla and drops things.

Very loud, stompy "music," usually from cars.

People whistling loudly for too long.

Very bright headlights.

Being outdoors when the sunlight is intense but the air is cold.

Christian apologetics when I know they're bent but can't for the moment show how they're bent.

Right-wing drivel when I know it's bent but can't for the moment show how it's bent.

Dishonest, invasive advertising (i.e. practically all of it).

People cracking the same one-liner repeatedly when it wasn't even good in the first place.

People talking as if there's something inferior about not knowing the latest trends or understanding the tedious intricacies of football or politics, or anything else that passes itself off as worthy of universal attention.

I'm assuming no difference between a trigger and a pet peeve.

I could list a lot but most of them boil down to "people being jerks". So I'll leave it at that.

What kind of triggers do you mean?


The ones that give me sensory meltdowns are:

sunshine, or the actual sun being in my face
repetitive noises
crinkle sounds (paper bags are the worst)
scents that just won't go away
feeling physically smothered by anyone / anything
having my feet tucked into a bed, or laced into footwear
lack of privacy
being looked at
being asked a lot of questions verbally
telephones



The ones that trigger my PTSD:

helplessness
guilt
shame
having to repeat myself
April 30th

People who keep sniffing, I mean blow your GD nose already. ughhhhhh

People who talk too loudly, there is this woman at my work whose voice hurts my ears.

Rap Music

People who mock people with disability's

humidity and heat

grown men who act like toddlers.

I don't think I have any. Maybe I don't understand what you mean by triggers.

I don't have pet peeves either. Not that I think everything is great. I find many things very hard or impossible, but those are not pet peeves.

The vast majority of these triggers are to do with people. People who do this, people who say that, etc. We've got a lot in common with NTs here.

The difference is, NTs find these things annoying. We find them overwhelming.