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Physical violence vs psychological/verbal violence (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I hate how physical violence is (correctly) seen as a horrible thing while psychological/verbal violence is frowned upon but not as much as physical violence.

My brother used to bully me every day until I moved out into my grandparent's house. There were two instances where I snapped and attacked him physically, and ONLY THEN did my family intervene.

Due to my neurodevelopmental disabilities I am unable to verbally defend myself, so I was being harassed and bullied every day and I couldn't do anything about it.

And because psychological violence is not perceived to be as serious as physical violence, when I responded in the only way I was able to (physically) the situation changed from being perceived as "Al-Anda's brother being annoying" to "this must be stopped immediately".

He also threatened to call the police and shit, since physical violence is illegal while bullying and harassing someone every single fucking day isn't.

I swear, this shit makes me so angry...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I've seen definitions of "violence" that include verbal abuse; I agree that the latter is more universally understood, but I don't think the choice of words is the point of the post