I was a victim of domestic abuse and violence, from my sister. She punched me, kicked me, screamed at me, threw things at me like rocks and caused bleeding gashes, forced me to lock myself in rooms for hours or she would beat me, constant verbal abuse.. every day. I flinched whenever people even moved around me. I was always scared.

I don't talk about it because it makes people uncomfortable, so uncomfortable they even turn negative towards me. People rarely 'speak up' about their abuse in life, and so, if you do, sometimes people feel like you are burdening them with your own troubles, and they lash at you. Or trying to get attention, or exaggerating and a whole host of things so they can make sense of and lessen the severity of your situation in their mind and feel better for themselves. Or at least that's how it happened when I've talked about it.