Nah cause when I got in a car accident, I held it together long enough to call my mom (I was 3 hours away and coming home from school on a highway) and after I told her the adrenaline wore off and I started sobbing. Because 1. My face slammed into my steering wheel at 60mph (no airbag) 2. My body slammed into the side panel of my car so hard it broke it into small pieces resulting in bruised ribs and 3. Coming off of that much adrenaline often comes with tears because that’s how the body reacts
I cried in my first accident because I nearly died (husband and I were hit at 60mph and spun a fuck ton before hitting a thick pole) and got shit for it. We literally weren’t supposed to walk out of that with the minimal injuries we had. I’m allowed to cry. I’ll still cry about it sometimes because it traumatized me so badly
Probably because you weren’t in it and thus in no real danger?? 😭 And if they came to tell you instead of fleeing, that sounds like a responsible driver who made a mistake. Any reasonable person would just take down their insurance info and go about their day, no reason to be angry. I’m sorry if I’m misunderstanding something I’m just so confused why you think it’s strange that you were calm in this situation, because that sounds like a perfectly normal reaction.
you can preach all day. it’s a subjective topic so I can say the same in reverse. most people are able to regulate emotions, especially after long periods of time like 30 seconds, so given the number of videos with people screaming for that long, we can assume most people are being over exaggerative. get some screams out and then let people who aren’t panicking focus so that the situation doesn’t worsen.
then my point in my first response to her is fucking valid again, isn’t it? this is all subjective, he-said, she-said bullshit because no one is going to know shit. i don’t and they don’t. i just gave my opinion that maybe you should be able to get a grip so you don’t cost someone their life in an already stressful situation
I could be wrong, but I *think* OP might be talking about men who comment on videos where women are sharing the aftermath of a car accident. Specifically, the type of guys who say things like, “Wow, props for not crying like all those other women.” Which is awful - because they’re both putting down an entire gender to lift one woman up and shaming anyone who cries after going through a violent accident. Which is a super valid and normal thing for anyone to do, which makes it more weird. 😭
ugh don’t let #24 act like they know you. ofc idk what you went thru whatsoever bc that’s actually fucking awful & terrifying. i’m so hoping all of u in the car & in the other car are okay. but to act like it’s this chill situation too🙄 (not you ofc!! other comments i read.) like dude i didnt
like sex, resources, food, clothes, whatever idc, women who have prostituted herself in turn of hoping to help her loved ones imo doesn’t deserve any critique when she could have quite literally laid down & done nothing & let those kids go hungry and/or abused. i can tell this woman is the right mother for my siblings
i hope, if this woman is somehow reading this, you know i am so happy seeing my little sister be so precious and kind. ofc everyone has their mistakes, ik i’ve done wrong, but god please leave these two little girls alone. they are so sweet, wholesome, curious for new knowledge. leave them alone. let them learn. please
actually technically not true lol. i 99% don’t scream with anything. but when i do i know it’s when im exhausted. no matter how hard i try to hold it in im breaking down again and screaming my head off from the pain & what i’ve dealt with from society. i’m sorry you haven’t experienced something that is genuinely so out of control it’s scary lol
you can’t 100% know what someone is going thru btw. like literally i’ve had ppl acted so surprised bc they didn’t expect me to be neurodivergent, yet it impacts me in so many drastic ways in public. my mom’s friends never expected her to be ND too…and i even didn’t expect it before i went thru my journey to get evaluated. this isn’t to day adhd or autistic people do this or that. but to show that some of us genuinely have a hard time communicating,
for some reason Tay and I are very similar. that is why i always reach out about being here for her, possible ways to get accommodations (if needed), just being here in general. i had bad experiences with my freshman roommate. that was at OU, i cannot say what OSU is like whatsoever, but i will look in (if okay) with reason of my history context of this specific situation because young girls, women, are dying NOW and i think i may be able to get it: with all of us
nothing technically is forcing me to scream? idk? but some individuals have had extreme reactions in situations where even they were like wtf i can’t control this. of course it is never ever an excuse to hurt people. but to act like people screaming are going out of their way to do so, esp towards you lol. i get it, but idk ive been told what you said because i simply have genuinely no full control of the volume of my voice, so ive been called childish/immature/unprofessional all because of
things even they actively know i’m trying to seek help for. idk if you’ve felt this in some way as an adhd individual, but i 100% feel so scared & possibly left out from my whole grad department all because of that aspect of possible negative reaction. i need to, and maybe you, ofc i cannot say, may need to find deeper ways to relax ourselves. don’t beat yourself up if self care videos or tips don’t work. they don’t for me. i literally chuck myself outta bed to be able to move bc
it is a natural reaction for me btw. i already have slow processing times, so if i take a bit longer to react to a scary situation doesn’t mean its any less scary. i genuinely think i screamed like almost a minute after something heavily dropped during a halloween haunted house🤣 it’s just genuinely not as simple as you think. when ppl say everyone is different, they genuinely mean it. i can see the signs of adhd/autism in my lil sis now (i couldn’t rlly see what it was until pretty recent), but
it definitely hides itself, or at least masks very well, around others even those we are closest to. my sister is struggling more than i did my first year because hers i can tell is manifesting more severely when not including the rooms of our parents, their supervision, and the rules that comes with fixing our mental health. don’t do anything you don’t feel comfy with tay tay. if you do feel comfy and okay, then ofc do whatever you want to do!!! but i am in the basement rn, genuinely. the
pls don’t hurt me for that. i’m just saying in the way that i’ve at least read about other violent situations; it just never made sense to me to explain it out in detail before. like omg who cares now we all know you wanna get famous for his, bc ik someone who doesn’t want the fame wouldn’t rlly be so descriptive in their plan where any media can uncover btw😝
I wouldn’t crash out over it at them, no?? 😭Like, yeah it would suck to have your car damaged but if they came to you of their own accord like you said, and you weren’t in the car, and thus not hurt, I’d say that’s the best possible scenario for a car wreck. Just take their insurance info, no need to “jump them” like your friends suggested. I had this exact thing happen and they didn’t come forward, so I had to pay everything out of pocket.
i’d still be mad as hell if someone hit my car like that. best case scenario, i’m without my car for however long it takes to fix, meaning i can’t get to school/work/etc. and have to take ubers or hope someone is willing to drive me around. that means i’m losing time, money, or both because of something 100% not my fault and 100% preventable. worst case scenario, the car is totaled or i’m on the hook for the damages. huge financial burden. plenty of reason to crash out
I get that completely, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t understand treating staying calm in that scenario as an unusual reaction. If someone came to me of their own accord to admit their mistake and make things right, I would want to stay calm to get things settled with insurance and everything, rather than crashing out at them and potentially missing the opportunity to get that info in favor of an argument no matter how upset I may be.
But that’s just my perspective as someone who experienced the opposite in that scenario: someone not stepping forward and owning up to their mistake and costing me thousands in the end. I get being upset, I get crying, but to flip your lid at the person over an accident while they’re actively trying to make things right of their own doesn’t really solve anything