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Trauma squatting

The action of claiming someone else’s trauma as your own, or claiming to be traumatized by another’s trauma experience.
She was trauma squatting on her friend’s childhood abuse, “what happened to you made me feel so violated.”
by Jono2112 April 12, 2026
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