2/traumatic. Sexual assault on children was considered to be one of the worst things that could happen, and if it happened to me, then it should have seriously fucked me up, right? I started to interpret problems in my life as having been caused by those childhood events.
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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I was raised in a culture which doesn't acknowledge abuse as painful, and then transitioned into a culture that does. For me personally, the second culture caused more damage in this regard than the first did.
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but you could say that about any closed group, any cult ignorance is bliss when you don't have the words or concepts to think about your experiences as an "other", you think everything up until then is just "how it is"
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I'm struggling to understand this "pressure" You were raised in a cult that erased your gender and sexuality and somehow that was more "liberating" than the society that pressured you into interpreting your abuse as traumatic
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No the cult itself sucked, there were concretely painful things about the world they created. I just was describing this because I wanted to be clear that I wasn't raised in some liberal free 'report your abuse honey' environment you said I was.
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