It screwed me up for a long time. I will never trust people properly because I was serially molested by a group of people who traded children not in their preferred age group, and molested at home. I was physically beat with belts, mentally abused by a schizo/borderline/bipolar custodial parent. Pandered by the same. I acted out as a teen. Sought dangerous risky behaviors trying to punish myself. I had four years of therapy with a psychologist who specializes in trauma victims. I had years of working through my blaming God. No one gets over it, we just find ways to cope and understand that if it did not happen we would be entirely different people. I happen to like how strong my mind is now, and like that I can spot bullshit a mile away because I survived years of the bullshit. I also will go figurative balls-to-the-wall to help victims. But I have also since learned some people pretend to be victims to get close enough to try to manipulate. Don't let people invalidate your issues by saying "You should get over it." They did not survive what you did. But people that act traumatized over dumb shit do irk me. Being denied your faddish clothes of choice, or not allowed to have a laptop, or having poor parents is not on the same level as the horrors some lived through. Accept you will not be like others. Embrace it as reforging you into something stronger.
But people that act traumatized over dumb shit do irk me.
That shit invalidates legitimate trauma, and it pisses me the fuck off as well.
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