that was such a good fandom term. let’s bring it back.
while i respect and appreciate trigger warnings i feel like often it comes with a burden. like at the very least you have to be out and open with the fact you have a panic disorder and have triggers. and too often i’ve seen this become “i’ll only respect your triggers if you disclose your mental health diagnoses”, which is bad and wrong and real damn stupid. it’s downright anti-recovery. somebody can’t recover if you want them to be able to retraumatize themselves telling you the details and then seeing if you judge them worthy or not.
squick is good. you can tell someone it’s a squick instead of a trigger, and not be forced to give up your dx. it’s very curb cutter effect. you get to normalize that request of “hey, let me know so i can avoid x”.
and it’s so nice for people who just have squicks! if you only got trigger warnings then you have people who are like, “ah jeez, i really dislike seeing this and i want to avoid it, but is it a trigger? do i have the right to ask for it as an accessibility thing? am i co-opting a struggle if i ask for people to tag it as one??” and like… shit, maybe sometimes it IS a trigger, they just aren’t at a place where they feel like hey can officially name it one. or maybe it’s just shit they don’t wanna see! and that’s FINE!
someone can give you a low-key “don’t like that” and have it respected and it’s GREAT! it’s just a thing that gets respected anyway!
These superbly round frogs are holy cross frogs [also known as crucifix toads, Notaden bennettii] Named for the cross-shaped pattern on their backs, these Australian natives have a loud wooping call, and the ability to ooze a tacky glue-like substance when provoked. Images by Peter Soltys.
If a guy falls off a cliff and dies, that’s an accident.
If a guy misidentifies poisonous berries, eats them, and dies, that’s an accident.
If a mosquito bites a guy and gives him a fatal disease, that’s natural causes.
if a tiger eats a guy, is that accidental death, or natural causes?
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You know, I don’t have an answer for you! It’s something we see a ton in internet videos and I hear anecdotal stories about it all the time, but I’ve actually never heard a good explanation.
If I had to take a wild guess, I would assume it’s just sort of a really weird situation for a cat to observe: not so much because of the ‘human is getting wet’ part, but because it also involves a lot of noise from the water and the fan and has uncomfortable things like shower curtains and lots of smells. That’s a lot of sensory stimulus, and I could see either the novelty of it stressing the cat out, or maybe just them being concerned because of it.
Since we are social members of our cat’s group – all “cat things we’re weird bipedal cats” memes aside – it might make sense that either the cat is concerned that we’re doing something as strange as showering, or that the cat is wanting to be near us and be social but does not like the proximity to all the stimulus of the shower.
But that’s also literally a wild guess, so take it with as much salt as you think appropriate. Something about showers definitely distresses a lot of cats, but since they can’t tell us what it is and running studies on the variables to try to narrow down what it is they’re reacting to would be really time-intensive, we may never know!
Are cats intelligent enough to project their own dislike of a specific situation onto another, i.e. “thinking” that because they would find a situation uncomfortable, another being would as well?
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