It's often hard for neurotypical people to understand this, which I get. But it really can be traumatic
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If everything is a trauma, nothing is.
Not every bad experience is traumatic. Abusing that word devalues the actually traumatizing experiences. Being an outsider in school and being raped by your dad are categorically extremely different experiences. Lumping them into "traumatic" is just not helpful.
It's really simple. If someone is traumatized by something, it was traumatic for them. Sure there are different kinds of trauma but there's no need to gatekeep or invalidate people's experiences.
Of course there is. As I wrote above: if everything is a trauma, nothing is.
You can't just expand the meaning of a well defined word just because you like the vibe of it applying to the victim group of the day.
In the same way you can't apply narrow definition for a word to all situations, when other more contextually correct definitions exist ?
(I mean, you can, but you probably shouldn't)
Also that is literally how languages change over time, so..yes, you can.
Though having a narrow definition of what a language can and can't be does track with your general vibe so far....