Have you as an adult ever come to the realization that you were abused as a child when you thought it was just normal? Like being beaten?
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itsok · 31-35, F
Mm, yes and no. It’s so much more complicated than that.
No because I knew as a child what to hide. So I did know what wasn’t normal, and what I wouldn’t see in other people’s homes.
I knew as a kid when some really wrong things were done to my siblings. I knew it was bad and shouldn’t be happening to them.
But I didn’t feel that same way for myself. It was and still is harder to recognize wrongdoing toward myself.
There were many things I didn’t know were even wrong until I was much older, or an adult.
There are still things I remember to this day and I’m surprised that it was another act of abuse that I had never looked at through the eyes of an adult before.
I don’t think I connected the word “abuse” to anything until I was a young adult in therapy.
No because I knew as a child what to hide. So I did know what wasn’t normal, and what I wouldn’t see in other people’s homes.
I knew as a kid when some really wrong things were done to my siblings. I knew it was bad and shouldn’t be happening to them.
But I didn’t feel that same way for myself. It was and still is harder to recognize wrongdoing toward myself.
There were many things I didn’t know were even wrong until I was much older, or an adult.
There are still things I remember to this day and I’m surprised that it was another act of abuse that I had never looked at through the eyes of an adult before.
I don’t think I connected the word “abuse” to anything until I was a young adult in therapy.
