That would be called child-on-child sexual abuse, and that's still a form of sexual trauma.


I know you don't want to believe what your therapist is suggesting. It's a scary thing to consider. Maybe you're not ready to think about that yet. If that's the case, you should tell her so. Maybe at some point you'll be more willing to examine those symptoms and what they might mean. But I don't think that either dismissing them outright, or accepting them at face value, will be particularly helpful for you. If discussing the possibility at all is overly distressing to you, it might be better to put it on the shelf for right now. You don't have to figure this out right now, or in public. You get to decide when and where you tackle this.