pony town and its issue with the term touch trigger

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TLDR; pony town touch triggers are disrespectful to people that actually have haphephobia.

terms commonly used and their definitions

haphephobia - the fear and distress of being touched. human, animal, ect. touch can cause feelings of being choked, disstress, physical pain, panic attacks, and other feelings from a result of being touched. there are no exceptions of this fear. it includes family and friends. this phobia is developed by extreme traumatic events such as physical as well as sexual abuse.

phantom touch - the sensation of touch when a limb is not present. extremely common in hyper realistic and/or 3d games such as most commonly vrchat. phantom touch is not experienced in 2d games such as pony town

what is touch trigger? why is it harmful?

based off of the title of this rentry, i can already imagine the outrage this will recieve. before i start with the main points of this article, what is a touch trigger? a touch trigger refers to the phenomenon of people on pony town being triggered by someone performing many of the touch actions (booping, sneezing, kissing, sitting, cuddling, hugging, walking through) on them. the term "TT" goes back to as early as 2020. the "modernized" term for this being "DNT". this phenomenon is harmful to people that actually have haphephobia because it belittles the struggles and hardships of people that actually have it. if you actually had a touch trigger, your friends and family would not be allowed to sit near you, boop you, or any of the other in-game actions because it would trigger you. many players of pony town have watered down the definition of trigger so much so it has lost its original meaning in the playerbase. do not use discomfort and trigger together, they are not the same. stop watering down triggers as discomforts and calling your discomforts triggers.

phantom touch and why it's an invalid excuse

phantom touch is the psychological phenomenon where you feel the sensation of touch by a limb that is not there. phantom touches only occur in 3d or hyper realistic games such as vrchat. phantom touch is most commonly connected with vrchat from touching people in game to more unsavory actions i will not list. there are no documented cases in which phantom touch happens in a 2d game, let alone a pixel my little pony fangame made by bronies.

conclusion

touch triggers are insensitive to people that actually suffer with haphephobia. if someone booping or touching your pony avatar in general upsets you so much to the point of physical sickness or panic attacks get help. when i say get help i don't mean it in a funny way, i mean it in a serious way. you need therapy if it's that bad for you, better yet take a break from pony town to figure out why this is happening to you. pony town is not going anywhere. a touch trigger is not some fun quirky thing you can fake, it's a watered down meaning of a real life phobia that's not fun to have.

sources

haphephobia information and treatment

phantom touch sorry this is urban dictionary phantom touch is also a term used with phones and medical terms

pony town touch trigger report with images and more in-detail info

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Pub: 20 Mar 2024 11:36 UTC
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