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Seeing through an 8 year olds eyes
Former Member
Posts: 177 Helping Hand
Messages to 8 year old me:
‘No one else notices you, gives you the attention that you deserve, I will’
‘You’re special to me, I don’t show anyone else what I do you’
‘A sex game that is just ‘ours’, that is why it must stay secret’
‘You don’t need to be scared, it’s a nice feeling’
‘A gift for you, to wear for me’
Naive, gullible, slag
Messages from 15 year old self:
No one noticed me, or gave me attention, but you broke me!
You don’t show anyone else because you’d have been caught!
Sex isn’t a game, not to an 8 year old, you shouldn’t be playing! It was never fun being your secret!
I was always scared, you confused my head, manipulated, scared is all’s I knew! It’s a dirty and shameful feeling!
A gift for you to get off and abuse me further! I was already damaged, already damaged you needn’t have bought me when you had the whole of me!
The only question I have now isn’t why, but where were the adults, my protectors, how did it happen for so long?
The rest of me is empty, dead almost - should I say thanks for everything??
😪
‘No one else notices you, gives you the attention that you deserve, I will’
‘You’re special to me, I don’t show anyone else what I do you’
‘A sex game that is just ‘ours’, that is why it must stay secret’
‘You don’t need to be scared, it’s a nice feeling’
‘A gift for you, to wear for me’
Naive, gullible, slag
Messages from 15 year old self:
No one noticed me, or gave me attention, but you broke me!
You don’t show anyone else because you’d have been caught!
Sex isn’t a game, not to an 8 year old, you shouldn’t be playing! It was never fun being your secret!
I was always scared, you confused my head, manipulated, scared is all’s I knew! It’s a dirty and shameful feeling!
A gift for you to get off and abuse me further! I was already damaged, already damaged you needn’t have bought me when you had the whole of me!
The only question I have now isn’t why, but where were the adults, my protectors, how did it happen for so long?
The rest of me is empty, dead almost - should I say thanks for everything??
😪
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Comments
Just wanted to say that the way you have wrote this amazing and its so honest so thank you for sharing.
I can understand you may be feeling upset and confused maybe? and I know that its hard to relive things that have happened to us in the past, so I'm sending hugs your way.
How are you feeling today?<3
Keep talking to us,
Butterfly x