How Being Abused at Age 5 Affected My Entire Life
A list of the effects
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7 min readJul 9, 2024
This post contains highly triggering topics including childhood SA and is for 18+.
As a child I never felt connected to my mother, and only felt connected to my father very briefly. I didn’t have a “before” to look back on where I could remember anything rosy. I always felt homeless in my heart, as I wrote about here:
So I’m not sure if all these effects were just from the abuse or if they were a result of the combination of these traumas. But I do know that without the abuse these effects would have been much less severe or not have existed at all.
Read the full story here:
In short, my babysitter, Sasha, brought me to her boyfriend to rape me. Here are the effects it had on my life.
