<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

Today for my sociology class I get to read an article with the above title. People always joke about triggers, and I make fun of people who seem to use it interchangeably with "being annoyed by something" and such, but yeah. Now I feel like I'm on the other side of the equation.

It's weird reading a scientific, sociological article written by researchers explaining, or trying to explain, why you do what you do. It's weird hearing them talk about it in a very factual, to-the-point tone. It's weird reading, "People think these women do it because x, y, and z" and I'm sitting here like, hm, I don't identify with that. Is there something even more wrong with me? And the statistics are sad and frightening, and I'm a part of those numbers that they're reporting, that I'm reading and taking notes on.

At the start of the quarter my prof said to the class, this course is gonna handle some sensitive stuff and if you're not emotionally prepared for it then this may not be the place for you. Which I appreciated and totally agreed with. But honestly, the stuff that went through my mind when he said that were things like trauma, drug abuse, etc. I didn't even think about cutting. I haven't done it in three months, and before that I was clean for two years, but it's still really hard to not pick it up again.

I'm scared to go to quiz section tomorrow and possibly talk about this with my classmates. From what I've experienced of the class people already aren't that understanding of "deviant" behaviors. The entire hall laughs at things that make me scream inside, that I can identify with. I'm scared of what they're gonna say. I'm scared of having to defend myself and others like me.

I don't know.
<bot>: it's just weird and pretty unsettling to read articles for class that are about you. Not, about *me*, you know, but... yeah.