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(⋟﹏⋞✿) ᶜᵒᵘˡᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ᵃᵈᵈ ᶜᵒⁿᵗᵉⁿᵗ ʷᵃʳⁿⁱⁿᵍ ⁿᵉˣᵗ ᵗⁱᵐᵉ ʷʰᵉⁿ ʷʳⁱᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵛⁱᵒˡᵉⁿᶜᵉ ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ?
tbh just block me. I've been working in such high acuity situations for so long that it's basically impossible for me to tell what other people find disturbing. I've casually said things about bodily fluids and functions around people who claim to have a "dark sense of humor" and watched them turn green without even realizing it's something that would bother anyone. It also usually turns out they're just racist / sexist etc and are saying that out of a desire to make jokes that keep them within their limited worldview, not that they're actually expressing anything reflective of an experiental exposure to human depravity.
as a specific example of something I know disturbed someone as an accident on my part:
I was once playing VtM with people who were like "oh yeah a real dark gritty game!" and my vampire character ate a bag of chips early in and the GM said "well you're just going to throw it back up" and my response was "well I can just keep re-eating the vomit thought right?" (because I once personally watched someone doing that) .....you could hear a pin drop in that chat (until the person who also works in my field started giggling).My apologies for this occurence; I thought I had marked this account as NSFW / 18+ but I'm not seeing where that might have even been an option, so maybe I'm thinking of a different account on a different service. If you're not able to interact safely with this you're just not able to interact safely with me in general. Best wishes though!