diff --git a/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/input/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls.tf b/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/input/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls.tf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1eeadef557
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/input/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+resource "test_instance" "foo" {
+  lifecycle {
+    ignore_changes = [
+      "a.%",
+      "b.#",
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/want/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls.tf b/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/want/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls.tf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b79d3639d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/want/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+resource "test_instance" "foo" {
+  lifecycle {
+    ignore_changes = [
+      a,
+      b,
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/want/versions.tf b/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/want/versions.tf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9b6f790b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/configupgrade/test-fixtures/valid/ignore-changes-flatmap-colls/want/versions.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+terraform {
+  required_version = ">= 0.12"
+}
diff --git a/configs/configupgrade/upgrade_expr.go b/configs/configupgrade/upgrade_expr.go
index aa4d2bcbc2..b1e40450c6 100644
--- a/configs/configupgrade/upgrade_expr.go
+++ b/configs/configupgrade/upgrade_expr.go
@@ -560,6 +560,14 @@ func upgradeHeredocBody(buf *bytes.Buffer, val *hilast.Output, filename string,
 func upgradeTraversalExpr(val interface{}, filename string, an *analysis) ([]byte, tfdiags.Diagnostics) {
 	if lit, ok := val.(*hcl1ast.LiteralType); ok && lit.Token.Type == hcl1token.STRING {
 		trStr := lit.Token.Value().(string)
+		if strings.HasSuffix(trStr, ".%") || strings.HasSuffix(trStr, ".#") {
+			// Terraform 0.11 would often not validate traversals given in
+			// strings and so users would get away with this sort of
+			// flatmap-implementation-detail reference, particularly inside
+			// ignore_changes. We'll just trim these off to tolerate it,
+			// rather than failing below in ParseTraversalAbs.
+			trStr = trStr[:len(trStr)-2]
+		}
 		trSrc := []byte(trStr)
 		_, trDiags := hcl2syntax.ParseTraversalAbs(trSrc, "", hcl2.Pos{})
 		if !trDiags.HasErrors() {