@JaneOnceMore I didn't go through a hate crime but I went through an awful sexual assault at a massage parlor (which was in a nice location, nothing iffy about it). The police didn't believe my story because I froze up during and right after it (no screaming, nothing because it sent me right back to an incident from childhood). I was shaking and crying by the time I got home. The attorney general refused to prosecute, a lawyer did nothing for me. I was under so much stress, my eating disorder got bad, I was short and irritable with my family, I kept having flashbacks (I still do from time to time) but much worse right afterwards. I don't even know how I got through it except that I had my daughter to raise and she was a handful through elementary school. I probably could have gotten her diagnosed with Aspergers because of all her sensory issues and breakdowns in school through 5th grade. Things got better once we put her in online school from home. But the sensory issues never have disappeared, she's just gotten better at masking them and coping with it. But anyway, it was something I really had to shift all my focus to and finally got me past it in a manner in which I could function better.