Talk:Scarlet/@comment-14722-20151004214529/@comment-4010415-20151006211255

@Shadow In your reply where you ninja'd me, that's a really nice explanation on how people end up with their gender identity being different from their sex.

Also, I keep forgetting intersex exists. Probably partially because doctors usually correct it, often asking the parents which sex they want their child to be, if that's an option. It's like that episode of House, where these parents had an intersex child and decided they wanted their kid to be a boy, but when he grew up, he was much more interested in girly things and didn't feel like a boy. His gender identity was female, and he didn't understand why. His parents didn't want to accept that they chose the wrong sex for him, so they kept forcing him to do boyish things like join the basketball team instead of taking ballet classes.

Also, maybe the terms are more recent, but a lot of the concepts are actually very, very old. Even then, some of the terms are coined outside of Tumblr.

I know for certain that Tumblr did not come up with using the word "trigger" when talking about psychological responses to something. That actually comes from the psychology field. Even professional psychologists use the term. Its true definition is, something that causes a high level of anxiety. So, basically, if someone has been traumatized by something, anything that reminds them of that trauma and leads to high anxiety and maybe even an episode of some kind (PTSD flashbacks, anxiety attack, panic attack, etc) is a trigger. Some people just misuse the term for anything that makes them uncomfortable, which is why some people on Tumblr are trying to bring back the term "squick" to describe something that simply makes you uncomfortable. Like "That squicks me."