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Originally Posted by Só leigheas
I wish people would quit asking me, "Why didn't you do something to stop it? Why didn't you say anything?"
I don't know, maybe because I was a kid who didn't know any better. A kid who didn't understand anything beyond, "It hurts. I'm scared. I wish they didn't do this." I didn't know it was wrong, I just knew these things. I was terrified. I didn't want to "betray" these people. It's so much more complex than, "They did something bad, better go tell someone."
It doesn't work like that. I didn't want this. I didn't purposely put myself into these situations. And I still don't know what I did to deserve it, other than existing.
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I can relate. When I was in high school, I was telling my grandmother how it had been when I was five years old and an adult family friend
**trigger warning** molested me. My grandmother actually said, "Well, it seems you would have been intelligent enough to scream."
Um.... I was five. I didn't even know what he was doing, let alone that the proper response was to scream.