Trauma flexing

The act of bragging, recounting, one-upping, about a traumatic life event - physical (i.e. road rash, bad cramps, etc.), medical emergency (anything from a splinter to a widowmaker heart attack), mental health related (“The cheese slid off my cracker in 20__”), major life event (someone you loved croaked or croaked themselves), or emotionally inflicted (from a breakup to being gang raped by a whole Archdiocese of priests and nuns), even bemoaning one’s racial plight and/or difficulties associated with their sexuality/gender identification/you-name-it.

It is simply a ploy to garner sympathy and attention, perhaps intersectional leverage. Quite an effective strategic tool.

(Ned): “Did I tell you that I endured four weeks of chest pains before I had my heart attack, stroke, and Exploding Colon Syndrome?”
(Jacques): “Ya. Fifteen times since Juneteeenth. Maybe get checked for the ‘heimers, too. And quit with the trauma flexing. It pisses off everyone and makes me uncomfortable, you dong.”

by Robaürt Du Maÿnnne July 14, 2025

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Get the Trauma flexingmug.

Anti-flex

It is when you underestimate something you did, which is really challenging to others as if it was nothing so that you sound like you are modest and don't want to flex, but in reality, you are just flexing implicitly.

-So I forgot the formula during that test, but I derived it quickly by neglecting the value of "such and such" and canceling "term" with "term" to derive the formula in a not-very neat fashion XD, gosh I'm so stupid!
-Bro, stop anti-flexing.

-I was getting bored lately with the Java syntax so I made my own programming language, it is a stupid language tbh.
-ngl that was a good anti-flex.

by primitiveMind May 9, 2023

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