Listening to my Experience of Sexual Abuse at Work: Rape, Grooming, Sexual Harassment and Injustice CONTENT WARNING
Editor’s note: If you have experienced sexual abuse, or have experienced victim-blaming, the following post could be triggering.
Don’t take my voice away.
I am writing this open letter because I want people to understand what abuse feels like, from my point of view anyway. I want people to know that you can’t “Just tell someone” I told and I want to make you aware that it doesn’t make it all better. In fact, for me and many other victims, it made things 100 times worse.
Getting Sober at a Young Age is a Wonderful Thing (Ben’s story)
I grew up in a nice town in South Florida, was fortunate enough to have both parents in my life and give me every opportunity to succeed. I did good in school, had plans to become a teacher after I graduated college, everything about my childhood was great, on the outside at least. I always felt different, I always felt like I missed some kind of class all my other peers attended on how to grow up and be happy