Sasha, Why’d You Do It?

How and why my abuser did what she did

This post contains triggering topics including childhood SA and is for 18+.

I was around 5 years old, sitting at the kitchen table. Sasha was talking about how fun it would be to go with the kids to Coney Island, more to my mother than to me or my younger brother. “Let me take Aliyah to Coney Island!” Sasha said enthusiastically, confident this was a good idea, that it would be fun.

I wasn’t too excited, but mildly curious. I wasn’t very happy in life to begin with. I didn’t…