I don't like the term, the use of the word, the connotations attached to what it's supposed to mean, any of it when it's supposed to be applied to me personally.
It does not describe me or what I deal with. It does not detail what I've been through and often detracts the facts of my life to accommodate diluted understandings.
I don't like being spoken for.... "us, as survivors.... survivors tend to....", I don't like professionals
claiming to know how someone "like" me experiences life and how everything is supposed to be fixed. Or having people tell me what I am supposedly feeling, battling, or physically going through.
I don't like when someone recognizes things only in part:
Your perps "almost" killed you Kevin?
NO, my perps did kill me, a number of times!!! Is it my fault that they medically revived me, does that cancel it out???Definition of kill-
To put to death.
To deprive of life
To put an end to; extinguish
To cause to cease operating
How do I "come to terms" with being murdered? How about having those same perps bringing me back and have me longing for the peace of that sleep.
How have I survived when the war has not ended? Survivorship is deemed after the fact.