When I was 16 I was sexually assaulted by a man in his 30s, and it's so far down the list of 'worst shit that has happened to me' that I didn't even start thinking of it as sexual assault until about a year ago.
I think you're completely right - this attitude makes it very hard to identify as an abuse survivor because it always seems like what happened to us wasn't 'bad' enough to warrant describing as that special form of evil.
Life is a damn mess, it is just not as cut and dried as rape myths want us to think it is.
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When I was 16 I was sexually assaulted by a man in his 30s, and it's so far down the list of 'worst shit that has happened to me' that I didn't even start thinking of it as sexual assault until about a year ago.
I think you're completely right - this attitude makes it very hard to identify as an abuse survivor because it always seems like what happened to us wasn't 'bad' enough to warrant describing as that special form of evil.
Life is a damn mess, it is just not as cut and dried as rape myths want us to think it is.