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Wow at an Admiral topic about triggers being so many posters trigger. :-)

That said, my wife is "triggered" or afraid of clowns. She rarely comes across them. It's not like they are a common thing in everyday life. Though I would argue depending on where you live, neither is gunfire. However, knowing court jesters (clowns) would be at the Renaissance fair last weekend, we all still went as a family and had a good time. One come to close to her ... she might reach out for my hand and hold it tightly till he's out of sight.

GoldenEel and Balrog make good points about actually triggers and not the bullshit use of the term that is used as am insult here on CE. Like the first sentence of my post. I might not understand triggers myself personally, but I would say that there probably is a healthy way to address those triggers and still have warnings. There's a time and place for everything. I think "facing your fears" at a play isn't it. But like others have mentioned, with a therapist.
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