1/When I was eight, I was molested. The experience wasn't scary or painful, just confusing and uncomfortable, because I didn't understand what was going on. After becoming an adult, I experienced a strong incentive to reinterpret what had happened to me as-
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Also to be clear about the patriarchal cult: We were homeschooled, weren't allowed to watch secular media, all of my friends were also in the cult, I had zero contact with the outside world beyond stuff like going to the store, and I didn't know a single unmarried nonvirgin.
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I guess I'm annoyed at you being annoyed at being pressured by society into interpreting your abuse as traumatic (when it wasn't for you) when in many developing countries especially, the culture/society does not allow for this interpretation at all
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Being pressured into viewing abuse as traumatic is bad. Refusing to acknowledge abuse as painful is also bad. I think our culture has the second class totally covered, but has issues with the first. Other cultures have issues with the first and are great for the second.
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