The Advice I Hope You’ll Never Need
The article discusses the author's personal experiences surviving two school shootings and the lessons learned from those traumatic events. It emphasizes the varied definitions of survival and the nuanced ways trauma can manifest in individuals. The author aims to provide comfort and advice to others who may relate to similar experiences.
- ▪The author survived two school shootings, one in Parkland, Florida, and another at Brown University.
- ▪Survivorship is defined differently by individuals, with trauma affecting entire communities.
- ▪The author highlights the subtle ways trauma can manifest, including hypervigilance and emotional fluctuations.
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IdeasThe Advice I Hope You’ll Never NeedI survived two school shootings. This is what I learned.By Zoe WeissmanIllustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Source: Joe Raedle / Getty.May 26, 2026, 10 AM ET ShareSave If you’re reading this, there’s a chance that you have survived, witnessed, or somehow experienced a school shooting, which is a common enough occurrence in the United States that I felt compelled to write this essay. I myself have been through two school shootings: first in Parkland, Florida, when I was 12, and then at Brown University at the age of 20.
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