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Talking through trauma and PTSD

Running

Running

"Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice"

My life is all about a lack of choice.

I'm alive because death would've outed him, it would have sealed his fate in prison.

TW: cultic, rape, trafficking, torture

I'm the daughter of a Satanist...

One trained to breed...

One pregnant at 6 years old...

One prostituted to whoever could afford her...

The girl her dad didn't want...

One men hired to have fun with...

One men experimented with...

One who was tortured for speaking up...

One trained for the sole purpose to please her buyer...

Regardless of age...

Still though...

One who never stayed silent...

One who broke free... twice...

One who rose up...

One who seeks to prove them wrong...

One who has been running for 15 years...

One who just needs to feel heard...

One who went through hell and survived...

That this Phoenix can rise...

She will not be burned...

She's proven that...

I have proven that...

I'm 35 and 90% of those I've been in prolonged abusive situations insufficient evidence for prosecution

A system that protects the abuser more than the survivor

And yet I still try

I don't try for me, I try for the ones after me, the ones like me, that they will see their justice

But for now I run...

From a dad that wants me silenced...

From the nightmares that plague my sleep...

From the memories that invade my mind...

From the choices made for me...

Didn't expect that to come out as poetic as it did

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@Jynx

Yeah and I had to pretend that I wasn't terrified of him and terrified of that stupid word!

*clings to Jynx in the plushie village*

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@avant-garde NOT the kind of pretend that we like!! And yeah, it is a stupid word 😤

*piles plushies around like a wall to protect us from the world, they all stand guard*

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Oh @Jynx it just brought those horrible 6 weeks back

TW: Abuse

Content/trigger warning

...where he consistently gaslit me and told me to be happy and they don't deal with sadness, to be thankful and grateful and to have beeping poise!

Telling me "this is your place too" while telling me what to do and how to act.

There was no lock on my door and I became a risk to myself as a result of being coercively controlled on one end and abused on the other...

And to just act like everything is ok? That they didn't abuse me? That he didn't abuse me?

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@avant-garde added a TW just so you know.

Sending a billion hugs too, just so you know.

That's so awful hun, and like having to just pretend like this person didn't put you through so much terror and misery. Making nice with ones tormenter is a special level of masking, I can only imagine the anguish caused by having to keep all your pain and rage inside.

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@Jynx I hadn't really talked about my time there...

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With anyone @avant-garde ? What's it like talking about it now?

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@Jynx

He's a sister church member... He was doing me a favour... They took me in when I had no one... Don't want to be ungrateful...

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Not how it works @avant-garde you do NOT have to be grateful.

The frog manages to get out of the fire and back into the hot pan, do you say he should be grateful for just sizzling instead of burning?

You were vulnerable, you were in crisis, you needed safety and solace and you copped... that?

Yeah nah maybe he did do you a favour, but then he stomped on you. You owe him nothing.

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@Jynx I need help grounding

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Gotchu @avant-garde keeping you tethered. You are safe, you are here with me.

Where are you at the moment, in your room?

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