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What Made You Angry Today?

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My grandfather was watching his show. My mom doesn't really show interest in the show usually. We were eating dinner... and then I caught onto one of the words they said on the show - it was one of my triggers - and I clammed up. This episode seemed to be about something similar to my trauma... but not viewing it in the most sympathetic light towards the incident similar to what I suffered. I think my dad caught on - he started talking loudly and trying to make a joke - but I was already dazed by then, and I had to rush upstairs. Trying to feel normal, on the way up I passed a favorite turkey plush from my childhood, and whisked away to the kitchen to comment on it to my mom - and she was still watching it, that episode.

It upsets me because she probably was watching the show and thinking about me from the same lenses as the "good guys" on the show. It just hurts because my mom was convinced for a while that I was faking my trauma and that I deserved what happened to me... I hate to think she's consuming this show as having those ideas be reinforced. It shouldn't hurt so much, but it did nonetheless.
 
Something making me angry at the moment is a song on the radio at work. Nothing wrong with the song, except I don't like it. The advertisers have cut the most annoying excerpt from it- one long, high pitched note, and the advert is playing what feels like every twenty seconds over the radio. The effect it's having on me is like tinnitus, only in the head. Every night I'm trying to get to sleep and I can hear that note ringing through my mind! I'm not the only person it's annoying.
 
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