Topic: Domestic Violence & Rape *Trigger Warning* My Story As a child, I experienced sexual abuse at the hands of my oldest brother. It began before I can even remember, likely at three or four-years-old, and went on until I was twelve years old. Even though he was abusing me, I loved my brother and idolized him. It was very confusing …
Category: Speak Our Stories
Speak Our Stories: My Rape and Its Effects (Anonymous Submission)
*Trigger Warning: rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse Topic: Rape My Story It was the winter of 2000 and I was 20 years old. I was not a big party person and spent most of my time with a small group of friends or at home with my siblings. I had a new female friend, Aimee, who had a crush on one …
Speak Our Stories – This is the Way Domestic Violence Affects Us All by @kalbirbains
Topic: Domestic Violence My Story My mother raised four children on her own, without any support from my father. She had to protect us from my father, who was abusive to us all. Although my mother tried not to show how difficult it was being a single parent, it was hard for her children to see the struggles she faced, …
Forced Marriage is a Human Rights Violation by @angel4many
Topic: Forced Marriage My Story *Trigger Warning: forced marriage, abuse, family abuse* I grew up in northern England and at the age of 14, I was presented with a picture of the man I would have to marry. Back in those days, I was a good girl (not to say I am not now!), and I did not answer my parents back. I …
Child Sexual Abuse: “Avani’s Secret” Survivor Story by @alittlemasala
Topic: Child Sexual Abuse *Content Warning: Childhood Sexual Abuse* My Story It’s taken me 37 years to tell my story of child sexual abuse to people I don’t know. 37 years of wondering if the thing that happened to me when I was 3 would affect me for the rest of my life. Prevent me from finding a lasting love, a stable job …
This is the Reason Sharing My Sexual Abuse Story is Powerfully Healing by @BSchulmanAuthor
*Trigger Warning: sexual abuse, sexual situations* Topic: Child Sexual Abuse My Story During the first seven years of my life, my family looked like all the other families of that time. It was the late sixties. My dad went to work at a low level office job every day and my mom stayed home with me and my older sister. When …
Dawn Hendrickson: How I Survived Childhood Sexual Abuse
*Content Warning: Childhood Sexual Abuse* Topic: Child Sexual Abuse My Story Healing takes such courage and strength. My main abuser, my father, died when I was 24 years old. It is at that time that I felt I was actually born, or reborn. Looking back, I realize I fell through a lot of cracks, including medical personnel. I had always thought …