Nope, not wrong at all. I was constantly told by members of my family (who didn't want to acknowledge what was happening) that what I went through was "not that bad." I eventually broke contact with those people, because I was tired of them making me feel like I was lying or invalidating my feelings.


I read somewhere once (I forget where) that the underlying goal of abusers is the same: to terrorize the child (or other victim), regardless of the type of abuse. So they will do whatever they need to do to terrorize you. Even if that abuse looks different than the abuse someone else went through, you were still terrorized.