Now that I think about it, a few years after 9/11 I was in Sweden taking a Swedish course. It was a 9/11, so the teacher thought it would be an interest

Now that I think about it, a few years after 9/11 I was in Sweden taking a Swedish course. It was a 9/11, so the teacher thought it would be an interesting topic for the class. Completely out of the blue, I started thinking about what happened again, and broke out crying. This is normal, and a part of life. You don't need to be protected from it by being given a trigger warning or given a safe space. Crying about the events of 9/11 is probably something that you needed to do. Would protecting you from that moment really have been protecting you, or would it have just delayed the healing process? Having an emotional response is not the thing that is being criticised as childish; blaming the person who triggered it is.