What was the moment where you realised that something was wrong, whether it be with your family, a significant other, a pet or even at your job?
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When I was younger, I had a 'friend' who had down syndrome. The teacher told me to be friendly to her since no one else wanted to be her friend. At this point, I hadn't had the best experiences with friends and I thought that everything she did was normal for friends to do. She would constantly insult me, hit me, steal my stuff and money, etc. The teacher never listened to my complaints and told me to go back and shut up. The moment I realised something was wrong was when she sexually assaulted me, in front of the teacher, and they just waved it off. I later moved from that school, but not before I got suicidal.
P.S Sorry if this is a bit dark!
I'm so sorry to hear that happened to you. Having a disability is not an excuse to be a jerk to others. The teacher should not have ignored you, especially with what happening to you right in front of them. They were so busy worried about the two of you being friends, they didn't want to see it as a toxic relationship for you.
When my mother came running into the water screaming at me to get out.
Turns out a riptide was ahead of me and the boys that were in front of me had got sucked out by it. I, as a kid, thought they were just playing. The boys mother had gone out and saved them and my parents had helped until medical showed up to the scene.
When the sky turned green and it looked really gloomy and fast forward to around 4 in the afternoon I was going to take a nice relaxing shower then the lights started flickering and I was freaking out and not really an important part of the story I was naked then my mom said to come down to the basement and I was like “aw s*** not another frigging tornado.” Nope, it was a derecho and I think 10 or so people died due to the storm. I’ve been off school since Monday due to the Victoria Day weekend, and my school has no power, and I feel like I am slowly becoming more stupid and a dimwit, I love going to school, but no school is causing me to be more dumb
When the person I’d trusted 100 % for 20 years sexually violated me.
When the guy I was dating kept putting women down. He said women don’t know how to take care of cars and women only want me for my money. Things like that all the time. We had dated long enough for him to know I’m not like that. A lot of women aren’t like that. I didn’t know any women like that. Then I had a dream that we were married and he was physically and emotionally abusive to me. I broke up with him. I was afraid he wouldn’t let me go or that he would stalk me, but I never saw him again. I’d rather be single than put up with that nonsense. That was 30 years ago. I’m happily single. I have no idea where he is.
When I was seven, I was living with my birth father . He would be at *work* for 1 to 2 weeks at a time. So my two younger brothers and I would stay with our grandma.
My cousin (12 y/o) and his family lived with our grandma. He would every morning, make me oat meal if I had sex him. One morning, my aunt caught him doing that. She had said "Jessie, don't do that to her!" Then she walked into the other room. She never talked to me about what he did and why it was wrong.
I didn't learn what sex was and why it was wrong until I was 11.
I realized something was wrong with myself recently. I was widowed a few years ago, recently started dating again, and realized certain behaviors/thoughts I had while dating weren’t healthy. Realized I’d been like this since I started dating in my teens. Nothing horrible or anything, just self-worth and attachment issues, been in therapy over a year now and working through these, and learning how my childhood contributed to my current issues.
