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Sep 22, 2014, 11:25 AM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Approach with caution. I'm not trying to be dismissive.
The signs you listed can have many different explanations. You should explore them with someone you trust and who will not make any suggestions that may alter or create new memories. Memory isn't exact. It is susceptible to suggestion.
It isn't abnormal for children to explore their sexuality in young childhood. Toddlers are known to masturbate.
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Originally Posted by HazelGirl
I don't have any memory of CSA, though. I have always wondered because of the above signs. But don't have any reason, outside of what was listed, to even consider having been sexually abused.
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A therapist told me I had signs of abuse even though I had no memories of it. My apparent deafness, speech delay, irritability, potty training and bathroom issues, and social difficulties were summed up to be due to 'hidden' sexual abuse. It turned out to be very wrong. If she had looked a little harder she would have discovered other behaviors such as repetitive play that would have suggested I needed an autism assessment.
This followed and haunted me for years. I doubted everything I knew about myself and my family. It left me confused and traumatized. I wondered and wondered if it did really happen. Now I know that never ever happened to me.
Before meeting that therapist I never ever suspected a history of abuse. I was just a depressed and angry young lady who had no idea why I was severely bullied and had social difficulties. I left that hospital a lot more messed up.
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