Also thinking...
If I had been ran over in the street would people be asking me whether I got the number plate, expecting me to call the ambulance and police, to tuck my spilled innards in, get up and chase after justice
I am thinking about the guilt I feel about feeling f*cked up, hurt, injured, still looking at the wound thinking, what the f*ck
I am thinking about how there seems to be a shelf life on this process, and if you go beyond it you're a 'victim'
I am thinking I really don't like this word. I
find it minimising, undermining, pathologising and representative of individualism
I am thinking I much prefer some de colonising definitions, 'people who have caused extreme harm/hurt' , 'people who have experienced extreme harm/hurt'. I am thinking to be addressed like this would allow me to feel like a human again and that it is okay to be in this process. Afterall, it has only been seven weeks since the assault
I am thinking I should put this in my diary