Link – I speak out about my sexual abuse because others still suffer in silence
“So now I speak. Bravely, bluntly, honestly. However you want to look at it, I speak. I’m a sexual abuse survivor and I did exactly that – I survived. Even now as I write this, I’m aware that future employers and my father’s family can see my words but I refuse to bow down to fear and shame again. I speak because I know the shame and fear that victims feel. I speak because although I understand how uncomfortable my friends and family are with the knowledge of my abuse, I feel that acknowledging how common sexual abuse is matters far more than our comfort. I think it’s vital that we break the taboo of speaking out about sexual abuse, that we stop joking about it to appease our own discomfort, and listen instead.
I speak because what happened to me matters. Victims having the space and an invitation to speak matters. I speak because I refuse to continue to feel ashamed. Because it’s important that sufferers see others speaking out. I speak because 85% of people who have suffered the trauma that I have feel they can’t speak up themselves. I speak because, fortunately, I feel I can.”
Well done Sarah.
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I kept silent for over 40 years, fear…fear kept me silent, fear of losing everything, fear of being judged,… I finally confided in my wife,,,, I hoped for comfort but received disgust, I thought my ” family” would be there….. i was wrong, I lost everyone in my life,,,,, would I do it differently today?… not a chance, speaking up saved my life., Christopher Anderson saved my life. ,,,,I’m finally living, thank you for being here,
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I was 16 before my abuse raised its head in my consciousness, I eventually find out I was abused sexually by both grandfathers, my brother and a babysitter. I found, and still find, it hard to deal with the anger others have when I speak out about my abuse. I can’t deal with my own emotions let alone those of others
Carol, I’m sorry they are responding angrily, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned about disclosing it’s that whatever their response is, you don’t have to deal with it. That anger belongs to them, not you. It is a hard thing, but the more you can see any reaction as “theirs”, and not yours, the easier it is to just move on.
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Thank you for sharing x Please carry on speaking xx
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If all the trauma pain and death that child abuse brings were in another country we call it a humanitarian crisis and we be debating over whether we should intervene. But since it’s here… Well I guess that’s another story. I have recently come to the conclusion that as a society we are Essentially insane.
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it never goes away n it never leaves you learn to cope and deal the best way you can, but even older in some ways it still effects parts of you 🙁 But always remember your better then They are n ever will BE xoxo Thickness Forlife
I have been peaking about my child abuse and rapes for years. Silence was part of the problem.
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I admire everyone who has had the courage to speak out about their abuse.I only found courage to tell my family& friends when Oprah Winfrey shared her abuse. So glad to hear that the silence is being broken one person at a time.
MI speak out for those very same reasons and until society get to grips with child abuse properly will be the proverbial thorn in people’s sides, my biggest is fear is that child abuse will become like rape as and in that I mean sort of “Normalised” i know rape is not considered normal anywhere but 30 years ago if someone was raped it was a massive thing and was thought of as so bad that you hardly ever heard the word rape but over the years society is not as shocked as it once was where rape is concerned even going as far as to blame victims for bringing it on themselves because of what they wore etc and now no one bats an eyelid if they hear someone as been raped…..and thats not good we should be just as horrified now as we where 30yrs ago…i don’t want to be hearing about child abuse n years to come and not be shocked by it, i don’t want people to not even acknowledge it, some on our society would love to see child abuse flourish but as long as i have breath n my body that will ever happen, i will not let child abuse become normal ever…not on my watch…I was abused as a child and I am 48yrs old now and it is only n this last 10yrs i have managed to get my life together, my abuse experience as blighted me all my life and i never really go over it, even now i have to fight with myself some days not to get angry….because i have so much anger……….until it as happened to you then you have no idea of how bad i is being a victim i was lucky i have managed to come out of the other side of it….some people never get out of it alive….