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This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.

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🤝🏽The night that changed my life🤝🏽

What happened to me occurred back on date, although I met this guy back in 2018 where I was in my early 20's & he was in his mid-20's. I've seen him on the bus on my way to school, but didn't really talked to him until he initiated a conversation with me back in date where our public transportation rides & friendship started. Overtime, I've grown to get used to him being around & bump into him a few times while going to school & going back home since we would go the same direction back & forth although we would later be in the same university after I transferred from cc. Once we got comfortable with each other, I developed feelings for him when I didn't want to for fear of being hurt. Once we got to hanging out outside of school & public transportation, his behavior towards me changed once I opened up about myself & also tried to get to know him as well. Looking back, it started out as harassment where he would force me to kiss him even though he only wanted to be my friend back in Nov. of 2019. I didn't know it would later get worse after trying to hangout with him again back in Dec of that same year after telling him my feelings. He never took it seriously & only wanted one thing after dealing with disappointments from past relationships while wanting something more casual, which he wasn't clear about through his mis-matched words & actions. That night then became my worst nightmare since he had no regards for my feelings or boundaries. That night I felt violated since he would called it a "hangout" when it was really🍇. It was my first intimate encounter, but it wasn't out of my own freewill. After graduating, life became more rough & the journey to move forward from the pain was difficult since I've been stuck trying to get a jump start on my career ever since. Currently, I'm seeking therapy to find ways to cope with what happened to me on this rough path to survivorship. Had I had known what would happen...I would've avoided him at all costs & in turn, avoided my trauma.

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    Healing looks like realizing what I am experiencing was deliberate vile premeditated and positioned to an annihilate me. Healing to me means seeing that the life that I've been given, by power that I am yet to understand fully, loved me enough to give me the use of these capabilities, that I do not take for granted and I use to the fullest. I eat well - foods that are good for me. My hygiene is immaculate and I take great care in loving myself, my teeth, and my skin, and my eyes, while going to my routine health practitioners which I always have on a routine regular basis. Healing to me means that my outlook, my surroundings my home is taken care of immaculately, meticulously, and it is the paradise that I would like to live in; I make it so. Healing to me is taking responsibility for myself. While I am looking for others to help me and advocate for me, which I found absolutely none so far, I still don't stop knowing that it's up to me if any change is going to be, even if it's been five years living in total isolation. Healing to me is making sure that the things that I am responsible for I stay on top of, and don't make these things that part that is unhealthy, giving more weight to my abuse. Healing to me doing the things that I enjoy doing; may they be traveling, even though I travel alone and I have to give an attorney's number since I have nobody "in case of emergency" to put down, having been totally alienated. Healing to me is realizing that despite the seeing the whole world is against me, I myself can be for myself with any one of those people who have taken up arms against me. Healing to me is just being my radiant beautiful self each and every day, everywhere I go despite knowing that my abuser has soiled every connection, every connectivity, and every potentially possibility that lies before me.

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    I was SA'd multiple times by my now ex boyfriend. He was 18 M and I 19 F. He also made some comment about how "no one will believe you because I'm the one who's younger/closer to the age of consent". I will be pursuing legal action once I go back to the state of where the crime happened. I will be traveling back for Thanksgiving. Trying to figure out if it technically counted as insertion as it was through clothes but that was obviously the intent. He also lied about being over his porn addiction which had allegedly been solved 2 years ago. He manipulated me into not telling my and his parents about said addition because he said that he hadn't told his parents. Later, he said that he'd told a mutual teacher (who is misogynistic and legitimately horrible). He'd force himself on me- he had about 50 pounds on me and about 6 in (15-16cm) on me. So the only way to remove him was to cobra wrap him with my legs and twist him off. I knew that this was my only way of escape because it was the only muscle region in which I was stronger than him (my max lift on adductors is 205 lbs/93 kgs). Just realised what it was- I broke up with him this past April and only realised the past few weeks. And now I'm having flashbacks and other PTSD seeming problems. And he thinks we're still friends even though I told him that I'd block him. He has no idea what he did or the damage he instilled. There's also some religious trauma because he said that I needed to "pray my anxiety away" when it's physically just a lack of serotonin. So I can't even go to a church because I'm so bitter. I know I can solve this for myself, but I don't want any other girl to get trapped by him. I felt asexual a little before all of this happened and now that feeling is stronger- am I still validated in that?

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  • Welcome to ‘me too’.

    This is a space where survivors of trauma and abuse share their stories alongside supportive allies. These stories remind us that hope exists even in dark times. You are never alone in your experience. Healing is possible for everyone.

    What feels like the right place to start today?
    Story
    From a survivor
    🇺🇸

    🤝🏽The night that changed my life🤝🏽

    What happened to me occurred back on date, although I met this guy back in 2018 where I was in my early 20's & he was in his mid-20's. I've seen him on the bus on my way to school, but didn't really talked to him until he initiated a conversation with me back in date where our public transportation rides & friendship started. Overtime, I've grown to get used to him being around & bump into him a few times while going to school & going back home since we would go the same direction back & forth although we would later be in the same university after I transferred from cc. Once we got comfortable with each other, I developed feelings for him when I didn't want to for fear of being hurt. Once we got to hanging out outside of school & public transportation, his behavior towards me changed once I opened up about myself & also tried to get to know him as well. Looking back, it started out as harassment where he would force me to kiss him even though he only wanted to be my friend back in Nov. of 2019. I didn't know it would later get worse after trying to hangout with him again back in Dec of that same year after telling him my feelings. He never took it seriously & only wanted one thing after dealing with disappointments from past relationships while wanting something more casual, which he wasn't clear about through his mis-matched words & actions. That night then became my worst nightmare since he had no regards for my feelings or boundaries. That night I felt violated since he would called it a "hangout" when it was really🍇. It was my first intimate encounter, but it wasn't out of my own freewill. After graduating, life became more rough & the journey to move forward from the pain was difficult since I've been stuck trying to get a jump start on my career ever since. Currently, I'm seeking therapy to find ways to cope with what happened to me on this rough path to survivorship. Had I had known what would happen...I would've avoided him at all costs & in turn, avoided my trauma.

  • Report

  • Message of Healing
    From a survivor
    🇳🇱

    Partageons nos histoires et rires

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  • We all have the ability to be allies and support the survivors in our lives.

    Message of Healing
    From a survivor
    🇺🇸

    Healing looks like realizing what I am experiencing was deliberate vile premeditated and positioned to an annihilate me. Healing to me means seeing that the life that I've been given, by power that I am yet to understand fully, loved me enough to give me the use of these capabilities, that I do not take for granted and I use to the fullest. I eat well - foods that are good for me. My hygiene is immaculate and I take great care in loving myself, my teeth, and my skin, and my eyes, while going to my routine health practitioners which I always have on a routine regular basis. Healing to me means that my outlook, my surroundings my home is taken care of immaculately, meticulously, and it is the paradise that I would like to live in; I make it so. Healing to me is taking responsibility for myself. While I am looking for others to help me and advocate for me, which I found absolutely none so far, I still don't stop knowing that it's up to me if any change is going to be, even if it's been five years living in total isolation. Healing to me is making sure that the things that I am responsible for I stay on top of, and don't make these things that part that is unhealthy, giving more weight to my abuse. Healing to me doing the things that I enjoy doing; may they be traveling, even though I travel alone and I have to give an attorney's number since I have nobody "in case of emergency" to put down, having been totally alienated. Healing to me is realizing that despite the seeing the whole world is against me, I myself can be for myself with any one of those people who have taken up arms against me. Healing to me is just being my radiant beautiful self each and every day, everywhere I go despite knowing that my abuser has soiled every connection, every connectivity, and every potentially possibility that lies before me.

  • Report

  • “It’s always okay to reach out for help”

    Story
    From a survivor
    🇺🇸

    #1760

    I was SA'd multiple times by my now ex boyfriend. He was 18 M and I 19 F. He also made some comment about how "no one will believe you because I'm the one who's younger/closer to the age of consent". I will be pursuing legal action once I go back to the state of where the crime happened. I will be traveling back for Thanksgiving. Trying to figure out if it technically counted as insertion as it was through clothes but that was obviously the intent. He also lied about being over his porn addiction which had allegedly been solved 2 years ago. He manipulated me into not telling my and his parents about said addition because he said that he hadn't told his parents. Later, he said that he'd told a mutual teacher (who is misogynistic and legitimately horrible). He'd force himself on me- he had about 50 pounds on me and about 6 in (15-16cm) on me. So the only way to remove him was to cobra wrap him with my legs and twist him off. I knew that this was my only way of escape because it was the only muscle region in which I was stronger than him (my max lift on adductors is 205 lbs/93 kgs). Just realised what it was- I broke up with him this past April and only realised the past few weeks. And now I'm having flashbacks and other PTSD seeming problems. And he thinks we're still friends even though I told him that I'd block him. He has no idea what he did or the damage he instilled. There's also some religious trauma because he said that I needed to "pray my anxiety away" when it's physically just a lack of serotonin. So I can't even go to a church because I'm so bitter. I know I can solve this for myself, but I don't want any other girl to get trapped by him. I felt asexual a little before all of this happened and now that feeling is stronger- am I still validated in that?

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