*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 …
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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 …