Me too. I didn't even tie what was happening to the abuse since it didn't happen right away. And once I figured it out, everybody was demanding to know why this was happening now instead of back then, and acting like it was my fault, or like I was lying, and I just wanted to yell at everybody "I'm sorry my trauma isn't going according to your schedule!"
It's really good to get it out, isn't it? And to listen to someone else who had it happen to them get it out so that we know we aren't alone. Which is why narratives about abuse are so important, and also why it's so deeply wrong that one fo the things society tries to do with victims is silence us because they don't want to deal with our stories.
*hugs* I hope you have people outside your family that you can talk things like this over with. It really does help, and the more you talk about it, the better you get at talking about it, and the weight just... lifts away.
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Date: 2013-10-06 04:43 pm (UTC)It's really good to get it out, isn't it? And to listen to someone else who had it happen to them get it out so that we know we aren't alone. Which is why narratives about abuse are so important, and also why it's so deeply wrong that one fo the things society tries to do with victims is silence us because they don't want to deal with our stories.
*hugs* I hope you have people outside your family that you can talk things like this over with. It really does help, and the more you talk about it, the better you get at talking about it, and the weight just... lifts away.