Sexual Assault Survivors Support

I worried the opposite. I see what so many here have endured as unthinkable brutality. My heart hurts at the unknown terror of it.

My own upbringing seems tolerable in the broad sense that it was the familiar. You learn to work within. Not to suggest there weren't serious consequences or that there wasn't heightened fear and confusion and anger. I just knew the potential if that translates. There was always a lot going on so you kept your guard up. That has had an affect in the years since, i get something called psychogenic seizures when i am under heightened stress (My fight or flight response can be a pretty wild thing), but at the time that awareness offered a type of security.

I hope we all, whatever the variations, whatever the burdens, can learn to place blame squarely where the blame is due and learn to be gentle with ourselves.