Sensory trauma is a concept from the Autistic community - autistic people describe things like a sudden loud noise (eg a door slamming) or being exposed to overly bright lighting as often being a source of extreme distress, where they would likely be no more than a mild irritation to neurotypical people. Autistic people have often been shamed their whole lives for their "overreactions" when in fact their reactions are entirely proportional to their lived experiences.
I'm not autistic, but I am disabled by various other conditions and experience something very similar myself. Having spoken to others with ME/CFS in particular, I believe we as a group experience sensory trauma or something like it too. Some say that things they would've easily taken in their stride before getting ME/CFS (like their boss shouting at them at work), became intolerable and sources of extreme distress, once they'd got the illness, often leaving them shaken for days and needing to take time off to recover.
I'm now wondering if sensory trauma is in large part what's behind the Strictly/Giovanni debacle. It does not appear that there was any physical or sexual assault as that would have resulted in immediate dismissal and also no verbal abuse so bad it would have constituted misconduct. The media are reporting that there is no smoking gun. Which leaves me wondering if this man was just very explosive - erupting with rage at his celeb pupils, who were in a state of extreme exhaustion having been forced to train so hard and so intensively. And thereby causing actual trauma from the assault on the senses while too depleted to be able to cope with it. Has anyone got any thoughts on this?
I guess we may find out later on today unless the report has been delayed.