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Fuckity Fucks.
2016-10-06 23:45:59 (UTC)

Molested

The word molested was not something I heard often as a child nor as an adult. The term abused was often thrown around like a dodgeball in middle school gym and as I got older I unfortunately heard "he raped me" more times than I would ever like to count.

As a sexual abuse survivor it saddens me that I often wanted to tell people a stranger raped me rather than my step dad molested me. Some how rape seemed like a cleaner word than molested, please take a moment to wrap your head around the fact that I thought it was better to lie and say that I was raped repeatedly than fess up and admit that my step father molested me for 7 years.

I wonder if saying that would upset a victim of rape. Are we all the same? Should it matter that I use the wrong terminology?

All this time I have told myself I am healed and I am strong, yet I can't admit to the things that have happened to me as a child. Maybe this will help change my outlook and my attitude.




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