not everyone who has been sexually assaulted immediately recognizes that is what happened to them. it can take days or weeks or even years for someone to realize what happened to them was not okay. believe victims rather than questioning why it took so long for them to speak up.
I struggled in silence for a long, long time. I smiled and pretended I was okay. But my relationships began to deteriorate. I stopped going out. I began to doubt that it actually happened, and believed that I made it up. But I am done being silent. It’s NOT my fault I was raped.
It’s NOT my responsibility to take precautionary measures to not get raped. Instead, I would rather tell my story. Fuck victim blaming. It eats away at me and I cannot handle it anymore. I no longer will take responsibility for my rapist's actions against me. I was eight. But now