3/But after some time, I stopped doing that, because I realized I was trying to force a narrative. In reality, the experience I had as a child had very little, possibly no long-term adverse effects on me. The actual adverse effects came from other things - a sense of
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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Yes, exactly. I suspect, for at least some people, taking a non traumatic experience (e.g., the type of molestation I experienced) and refusing to frame it as traumatic is actually an extremely healthy thing to do.
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