Trauma Brag
To brag, highlight, or bring attention to hardship that one has experienced. Examples include highlighting one's experience of poverty, illness, abuse, or adversity
These types of brags get attention for higher status signalers and dismissal for low status ones
These types of brags get attention for higher status signalers and dismissal for low status ones
There's the head of that bank trauma bragging about his illness in order to get more clout in the newspaper headlines