Essay About Being Sexually Assaulted

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Being sexually assaulted can ruin your life. As a child, you really don’t know what is going on, so you try to understand it the best way you possibly can. After examining what happened, you conclude that it must be something that you did - even though you don’t have a clue what that something might be. Your attacker has violated you, and is acting like you contributed to the situation by something that you did, even implying that you initiated the whole thing. You are afraid and become unsure of how the reaction is going to be when you tell your parent or guardian the details of your assault. As a young person, you know that an adult’s side of the story tends to hold more weight than a child’s version, so, often times, rather than tell what …show more content…

It can cause you to go through depression, lose relationships and make you unable to build between yourself and others, and above all cause you to become dark and think about the tragedy every night and day. I’m speaking from personal experience, I have been sexually assaulted twice, once at the age of 12 and again at the age of 16. Both times, these men took my pride and joy. I couldn’t believe that it happened to me twice in my life, and only 4 years apart. I didn’t know how to deal with what was going on in my life, or understand why it was happening to …show more content…

When you are sexually assaulted as an adult you know what the processor are and what to do next in the situation. For example, i am a young adult and if i would ever get sexually assaulted again i would know how to cope with it , and also i would know how to handle it. However, when you are an adult and you went through it as a child it was hard because you were young and didn’t know how to handle it. To illustrate, when my granny was young she was raped and also sexually assaulted and nobody was there to help her cope with the fact that a man took something from her this is why i talk to my granny because she can related to me on a lot of things i didn’t know that even

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