Lately on reddit I've been reading a lot of posts regarding mental illness and hospitalization.

It seems a lot of people don't understand what its like to be a victim. It seems a lot of people don't understand intersectionality. 

They don't want to believe bad things happen to good people. So they will follow the "just-world" fallacy to the point of victim blaming or claiming your experience was so anecdotal and unique that you must be lying about your trauma and experiences. It is gaslighting for the purpose of maintaining a privilege point of view of the world at the cost of punching down on a less privilege caste.

It feels so bad to be dehumanized on top of the dehumanizing trauma one has already suffered.

**How do you handle people who punch down?** 

**How do you handle people who gaslight your trauma?**

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Just a quick word of empowerment:

My family was traumatic to me. They engaged with me sexually. They gave me a traumatic brain injury (a fractured that healed as a dent permanently on the back of my skull). My trauma, no matter how invisible it may be, still existed. My trauma, no matter how gaslight I have been, still exists and shaped me into the human I am today.