Our existing narratives, created with wisdom, meaningful introspection, and reasoning, can change quickly if triggered by stressful contexts created by past trauma. The residue of a former trauma can shape the global nature of a survivor’s response-narrative and their response-content during benign encounters (Crawford, 2023). In my experiences with this phenomenon, survivors may describe a typical encounter like a routine doctor’s visit, renewing a license, talking with a friend, or something else, and suddenly an innocuous question triggers an old response-narrative script from long ago. Some survivors have described it as living an old plot in a new moment, finding themselves dialoging in a way that sounds starkly reminiscent of an older narrative. This triggered chronological time disruption may place a survivor back in a time shortly after a previously experienced trauma (Lutgen-Sandvik, 2007). Old responses, new experiences A survivor’s current day responsive language, according to Anzaldua (1999), can be impacted under specific contexts where traumatic memory can seep into a communication borderland where there are no boundaries. In other words, sometimes the impact of …