This is just gonna be me yelling into the void but!! peoples reactions to ‘baby reindeer’ are pissing me off and its so obvious they don’t understand CPSTD!!! ‘omg why did he try to relive his trauma’ ‘why did he go back to his groomer’ ‘hes a weirdo for getting off to his stalker’ these are all totally common reactions to sexual trauma!!! shakinf you by the shoulders.. saying shit like that is only reinforcing to the people who have experienced similar and related to that show that their trauma reactions are gross or make them stupid or a bad person. grooming and sexual trauma fuck you up real bad!!! its normal to act irrationally or in a way which makes the situation worse!! its common to try to re-experience it to try to take control! and its still! never! their! fault! screams!
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Baby Reindeer was great bc it showed the "bad" sides of surviving abuse as much as the "good"; Donny was/is by no means perfect, but that doesn't mean he deserved what happened.
we see him engaging w unhealthy coping mechanisms, w reckless and self destructive behaviours, not bc they're meant to help him cope, but to show that self destruction, recklessness and unhealthy coping mechanisms DO exist, and that they're not always as obvious as a slit wrist or playing chicken in a busy road.
and then we have the "would you think it about me?" scene and just... I broke down. completely. I didn't even need to hear the line abt the Catholic Church.
Baby Reindeer was just great, tbh. it WAS very triggering at times and yeah, I was almost sick. I cried, too. but that's bc it was RAW and it was REAL - it wasn't painting what happened as somehow great or deserved or "good". it treated it properly. it's not the glorified, romanticised, normalised kinda film abt stalking & sexual violence that we see in the media - it's REAL.
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the entire internet focussing on ‘who the real Martha is’, instead of the identity of the powerful writer who groomed and r*ped donny just tells you what you need to know about the state of our society.
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The trigger warnings still did not prepare me for how much this show wrecked me 🥲
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baby reindeer got too real too quick. this show is a fucking masterpiece
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Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer (2024)
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Baby reindeer was brutal, triggering, uncomfortable, honest and beautiful. One of the best portrayals of someone with sexual trauma I've ever seen on TV.
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"So I'm gonna stop running now. Because I just don't have the legs for it anymore. I just don't." - Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
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Richard Gadd, I hope you have the best therapist in the world because…whew…
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"it was strange. after all the awful things that had been done to my body, i just couldn't lose myself in intimacy anymore. like now there were feelings involved it all just felt too much."
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