Recent content by raven68

Yes, because they are willfully ignorant. All you can do is try to become stronger as a result of what happened and it sounds like you are so keep going. I guess I got over what happened to me after so many years, but I was a child at the time, I didn't even know what ptsd was, but looking...

Further to my previous comment I could reel off instance after instance of my own experiences when the kind of circumstances I described arose. One of the earliest when I was a teenager at a party, a girl from school who didn't like me and I didnt like her was there. She had too much to drink...

I didn't write my response to this thread with the intention anyone might like it. I said it how it is. I have enough experience in my life to know, and to paraphrase one of your comments, too many men ARE exactly that, sex fiends. Men do not ask women on dates because they want to be their...

When a man asks you to go on a date, to put it bluntly, he means he wants to f*ck you. If you agree to that date he thinks you mean, probably/maybe. If you go on a date to a place with other friends, that is still just a maybe. If you agree to leave that group and go off alone with him, that is...

I think trauma affects people in weird ways. I have questioned myself many times about it. When the man attacked us and drew the knife I believed he was going to kill us. I cant explain how terrified I was. Thoughts of news stories about children that go missing and get found dead were in my...

Yes omg. I have read many survivors stories on internet forums, not really knowing why for the longest time before I realised I was looking for someone who said their experiences after the abuse events had something in common with mine, that I feel most ashamed of. My brother and I were 11 and...