Danger can lurk within the safety of your home as well.

Family members are supposed to be trustable and not betray. In my case, I wasn't a minor, but I learnt the hard way that young adults can also be targeted. Abused. A close relative repeatedly assaulted me for a number of days, at my home and I still am ...
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Female
Home

Home is full of Haunting Memories

I was 9, he was my brother. So every year I go to my paternal grandparents' house to spend my summer vacations. My mom and my little sister also come with me but my mom works and stays out late. So, I would spend my summer vacations with my grandparents, cousin ...
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Female

Girls aren’t as safe as we think at school

I was 12-13 when it first started happening boys would just grab me from behind I didn’t know what to think at the time as I saw it happen to other girls and then one day a large group of boys all got me into a corner and ...
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Female
School

Not-so-grand Finish.

I was having the best time on my walk. The skies are so blue today and the sun is out. It felt so nice to feel the cold breeze against my skin. I was coming home singing, walking on the sidewalk, when I look to the side and there's ...
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R
Female
Near Home

remembering.

I don’t remember how it started. Only how it ended.   It ended with my ability to forgive, but the memories will stay with me forever, marking me as their own. I am not my trauma, but it undoubtedly defines me. In one way or another, I am ...
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mari.
Female

My sister‘s half brother raped me as a child

I am a male and I have a half sister and she has a brother I am not related to him but he used to come over to my house a lot with her. He was 11 when the incident happened and I was 6. He and I would hang out and ...
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Male
My house

Growing up isn't what I thought it'd be.

When I was in my freshman year of high school, I was stoked. What 15 year old girl wouldn't be? New responsibilities, new school, new friends, and most importantly for our story, a new Cross Country team. On my new team there was a guy, lets call him James. I ...
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Bailey H...
Female
School

I was raped and I am not a woman.

I was raped & I am not a woman. I was raped and it was 'she' who did that. A male was raped & assaulted by a female. These lines are certainly bold enough to raise eyebrows and hurt the stereotypes existing in our societies. A man who is expected ...
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Male
Mumbai ...

My first boyfriend

Being sexually assaulted by my first boyfriend was the most confusing experience of my life. I missed red flags I didn't even know existed, dismissed certain things as normal as I didn't know any different. The only representation of an actual relationship I had was from the media, ...
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Female
Friend'...

Everything changed about me. Except for a few things .

I was 13 or maybe 14. All I used to read was detective novels. Thrillers. Some Enid blyton. Some Nancy drew. I had gotten my periods. I knew much about the reproductive process but nothing about predators. I had conservative parents who taught me nothing about sexual assualt or harassment nor how ...
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Female