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mellohi

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no matter how mundane it seemed at the moment, or how your friends or family made you feel, you are so valid.

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healing is being able to acknowledge that something traumatic happened while teaching yourself to move past it

i dont even know how to start this. when i was in 9th grade, a boy joined my friend group. i thought he was okay at first, but then he revealed his true colors. i witnessed him put his hands down other boys pants in front of multiple other students and teachers. people treated it as a joke. he began asking me and my other friend, name (we're both girls) to film porn so he could jerk off to it "as a joke." i was always uncomfortable with this, but when i protested everyone treated me like i was overreacting. couple weeks later i was laying on a giant table in our woodworking room because it was the end of class, when i noticed a shadow over me. it was him. he leaned down over me and placed his hands next to my head and said, and i quote, "they don't call me [name] the rapist for nothing." after this, i messaged my friend i mentioned earlier. i thought she would be disgusted and come to my defense. but all she said was he probably meant it as a joke. i wanted to desperately get away from him, but every single one of my friends associated with him. so i shut up. but i distanced myself as much as possible. couple days later another friend of mine brought him to my house without asking. i felt bad so i didnt protest. while we were in my room, he crawled under my bed and grabbed my legs to make me trip. then he dragged me under with him. i was wearing a skirt and he started to claw and bite at my exposed legs and thighs. i screamed and my other friend yanked me free. he didnt say a word to the perpetrator. he never asked if i was okay. a week later name started dating him, and almost all of my friends ghosted me. now they hang out with him, knowing what a fucking freak he is. i witnessed him walk around a thrift store and call baby clothes sexy LAST MONTH. nothing like everyone abandoning you to stand with someone they know assaults people!

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