Just wanted to share my own experience.

Everyone is right to be cautious, in my opinion, as there can be many causes for these feelings. It's best to let some time pass. If something happened, it will come back to you... so hold off on accusing people if you can... that's a big deal for accuser and accused...

But, the reason I commented is because Recovered Memory Syndrome is real, and I can say it for sure because it happened to me.

I was about 19, and already 'didn't believe in' RCM (it had been in the news a lot). Then I remembered my own.

I was lucky... it wasn't a family member or, well, these things are difficult to categorise and compare, of course, but it wasn't 'that bad'.

(I'm laughing at myself while writing this... it's a measure of how abysmal my childhood was, that a sexual assault barely registered)

Yeah, anyway, I was assaulted by a boy in my class. We were both about six or seven.

I went right through school with this boy, but I swear, I had completely forgotten it until that moment in my late teens.

So, as I say, time will tell and once you do know (as someone else has said) you really know.