Anonymous #1 11w

Afaik the only real difference is whether or not the recipient is okay with it. Someone who is willing and able to handle the discussion is being vented to, otherwise it’s trauma dumping Potentially venting is abt something currently happening and trauma dumping is abt something from the past?

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Anonymous #2 11w

I feel like venting is a generalized statement, and then when you start to go off specifics and the past and in detail…I feel that’s when you kinda get lost in the middle. Not everyone who vents wants help, but shooting people down left and right is a sign that you has impure intentions wanted sympathy, may have been given advice and now you feel invalid. Thatsss trauma dumping (I feeeelll)

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Anonymous OP 11w

Why is wanting sympathy an impure intention? /gen

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