The May edition of the Carnival Against Child Abuse is up over at ImagineIf and even though it kind of snuck up on me, there appears to be lots of good reading material, once again!
It’s hard to believe, but next month will be the carnival’s first birthday. Wow, the year has just flown by! I’ll have to spend some time thinking about what I want to contribute to the year anniversary Carnival. Hopefully, you will do the same!
Pin Last night, during the #Sexabusechat on Twitter, the topic was disclosing – the fear, the struggle, and the results. That’s a huge subject with a ton of nuance, and sure enough, it inspired a lot of good conversation. Toward the end of it, however, a thought occurred to me in response to a tweet from another…
Crossposted to Mikemac on Sports. I was listening to a recent BS Report, a podcast about sports on Grantland, in which Bill Simmons had Mike Tyson and Jalen Rose on, and got Mike talking about some of the issues and demons that he has had to deal with throughout his life. It was an interesting…
On a recent Saturday afternoon, my wife and I went for a country drive to one of the cute small towns in our area of the country. We stopped in a little coffee shop and were greeted warmly by the elderly mother of the shop’s owner. Unfortunately, this woman, while very sweet, may be dealing…
Pin I get it. Punishing child abusers is an easy public opinion win. No one wants to punish abusers less. As survivors, though, we must balance that with what is best for the child. Testifying in a child abuse trial is a traumatic experience as it is. We shouldn’t be asking kids to take responsibility for taking the life of their abuser on top of that or spend the rest of their lives knowing that someone died because they spoke up. Nor should we be arming abusers with another way to manipulate kids into staying silent.
We should focus on what is best for a survivor’s healing so they can have a life after abuse because that is possible.
Abuse. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. It’s sad, but it’s true, there are always going to be little “triggering” events that bring back all the fear and all the helpless feelings. The real key is recognizing them for what they are and reacting appropriately. That takes a long time to learn, I’m sure.
Anyone who spends as much time as I do online, and who is an outspoken survivor, inevitably gets bombarded with lots of requests to share information to their readers. Like most of you, I get a lot of those, and if it’s something that I think survivors might benefit from, I’m more than happy to….
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Sounds good, thanks Mike!