I am really glad that this managed to help you. I've been writing drafts of this post for a while because sexual assault is a very difficult topic to write about if you're speaking about your own experiences -- what if people think you're exaggerating? What if they think the incident wasn't serious enough? What if they think you're making it up for attention? What if they think you could've prevented it? What if they think less of you for talking about it?
The positive feedback I'm getting on this is helpful with dealing with the internalized gag against talking about sexual assault.
And more than that, knowing that this post has helped people? That made writing the post and debating on posting it worthwhile.
I hope you can somehow find closure, or work towards it, and I'm glad you finally managed to tell someone about it.
If you want to friend me, go ahead! My journal is pro-human rights, pro-choice, anti-war, pro-Hillary, pro-feminism, pro-gay rights, anti-idiocy, pro-UN and updated sporadically. RL stuff is flocked, anything interesting or fandom-related is public.
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The positive feedback I'm getting on this is helpful with dealing with the internalized gag against talking about sexual assault.
And more than that, knowing that this post has helped people? That made writing the post and debating on posting it worthwhile.
I hope you can somehow find closure, or work towards it, and I'm glad you finally managed to tell someone about it.
If you want to friend me, go ahead! My journal is pro-human rights, pro-choice, anti-war, pro-Hillary, pro-feminism, pro-gay rights, anti-idiocy, pro-UN and updated sporadically. RL stuff is flocked, anything interesting or fandom-related is public.