I
don’t know when the abuse started, but I told my mother when I was 12.
She told the police. I told a social worker. Then I told a nurse who
examined me to see if I’d been physically scarred (I had). Then I told a
courtroom via a video link. And after that I didn’t tell anyone for a
while. I don’t remember speaking a lot during adolescence at all.
Maybe I did. But what I do remember was making the conscious decision to stop speaking about my abuse, and how it was making me feel, because everybody around me was very uncomfortable when I did talk about it, and speaking out had lost me an entire side of the family.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/25/sexual-abuse-silence
Maybe I did. But what I do remember was making the conscious decision to stop speaking about my abuse, and how it was making me feel, because everybody around me was very uncomfortable when I did talk about it, and speaking out had lost me an entire side of the family.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/25/sexual-abuse-silence
