I am now in my 40’s and finally feel I am recovering from things that happened in early childhood. I was abused by my father, and I think guys could sense that I was a victim. When I was four, a boy peed on my at school during “naptime”. Somehow I felt it was my fault. Then when I was six, boys assaulted me during recess, tore off my clothes, and touched me. I was paralysed with fear, but again felt it was somehow my fault. From this fear and shame I never told anyone. Boys and men continued to abuse me for decades, all because I was formatted by my father’s early abuse. It has taken ten years of therapy for me to realise that was all wrong, and most of it was criminal. I now understand, thanks to people like Laura, and will not be a victim again.
