#believesurvivors — Public Fediverse posts

@PhoenixSerenity

First, I sorry you (or anyone) had to go through any of that.
My own experience of SA was when I was so young I have only fragmentary memories. So I grew up able to deceive myself that my childhood was fine -- which as you note makes it easier to discount (and maybe in my case made me more likely to discount) the stories of survivors.
But having spent many years healing I know that anyone willing to face the rejection, denial, and counter accusations that come with accusing even a normal citizen would not do so idly.

So I tell people that the fact that someone has fought to get their story into these documents is proof enough of the truth they tell.

Your story, those in some of the replies, and the stories of victims/survivors of the Epstein class show great courage. I hope most people hear them that way. I know the Epstein class do, even if they won't admit it. They know what happened, and they fear this truth being known.

So I second your hashtags: #BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors #ProsecuteTheEpsteinClass

@PhoenixSerenity

First, I sorry you (or anyone) had to go through any of that.
My own experience of SA was when I was so young I have only fragmentary memories. So I grew up able to deceive myself that my childhood was fine -- which as you note makes it easier to discount (and maybe in my case made me more likely to discount) the stories of survivors.
But having spent many years healing I know that anyone willing to face the rejection, denial, and counter accusations that come with accusing even a normal citizen would not do so idly.

So I tell people that the fact that someone has fought to get their story into these documents is proof enough of the truth they tell.

Your story, those in some of the replies, and the stories of victims/survivors of the Epstein class show great courage. I hope most people hear them that way. I know the Epstein class do, even if they won't admit it. They know what happened, and they fear this truth being known.

So I second your hashtags: #BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors #ProsecuteTheEpsteinClass

@PhoenixSerenity

First, I sorry you (or anyone) had to go through any of that.
My own experience of SA was when I was so young I have only fragmentary memories. So I grew up able to deceive myself that my childhood was fine -- which as you note makes it easier to discount (and maybe in my case made me more likely to discount) the stories of survivors.
But having spent many years healing I know that anyone willing to face the rejection, denial, and counter accusations that come with accusing even a normal citizen would not do so idly.

So I tell people that the fact that someone has fought to get their story into these documents is proof enough of the truth they tell.

Your story, those in some of the replies, and the stories of victims/survivors of the Epstein class show great courage. I hope most people hear them that way. I know the Epstein class do, even if they won't admit it. They know what happened, and they fear this truth being known.

So I second your hashtags: #BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors #ProsecuteTheEpsteinClass

@PhoenixSerenity

First, I sorry you (or anyone) had to go through any of that.
My own experience of SA was when I was so young I have only fragmentary memories. So I grew up able to deceive myself that my childhood was fine -- which as you note makes it easier to discount (and maybe in my case made me more likely to discount) the stories of survivors.
But having spent many years healing I know that anyone willing to face the rejection, denial, and counter accusations that come with accusing even a normal citizen would not do so idly.

So I tell people that the fact that someone has fought to get their story into these documents is proof enough of the truth they tell.

Your story, those in some of the replies, and the stories of victims/survivors of the Epstein class show great courage. I hope most people hear them that way. I know the Epstein class do, even if they won't admit it. They know what happened, and they fear this truth being known.

So I second your hashtags: #BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors #ProsecuteTheEpsteinClass

@PhoenixSerenity

First, I sorry you (or anyone) had to go through any of that.
My own experience of SA was when I was so young I have only fragmentary memories. So I grew up able to deceive myself that my childhood was fine -- which as you note makes it easier to discount (and maybe in my case made me more likely to discount) the stories of survivors.
But having spent many years healing I know that anyone willing to face the rejection, denial, and counter accusations that come with accusing even a normal citizen would not do so idly.

So I tell people that the fact that someone has fought to get their story into these documents is proof enough of the truth they tell.

Your story, those in some of the replies, and the stories of victims/survivors of the Epstein class show great courage. I hope most people hear them that way. I know the Epstein class do, even if they won't admit it. They know what happened, and they fear this truth being known.

So I second your hashtags: #BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors #ProsecuteTheEpsteinClass

I need to vent about the #EpsteinFiles as a teen survivor of SA, who never got to see justice delivered. The guy who raped me died last year without ever being put in prison. He SAed multiple teens & young women, after assaulting me when I was 15 yrs old. He had more social status power than I had. So many people protected him instead of supporting me & others that he SAed & physically beat up. I found out over a decade after he SAed me that he was friends with many corrupt cops & they aided/abetted his multiple crimes over 3 decades. Us teens who were victimized by the same guy didn't have much of a chance - even if we had courage + solid support, to go more public back when we were teens.
Corrupt government run system protect the predators over victims. We supported each other in private to try to recover from SA inflicted traumas.

Those SA traumas never fully leave you...
You just learn how to deal with it a bit better, over time or else it can drown you with heavy emotions & block you from taking back some of your brutally stolen personal power.

I'm very pissed off about people harshly judging the victims/survivors of Epstein's(and his shitty cohorts) sex crimes. People who have never been SAed don't get that it can take many years for people to speak up about what happened to them & some people take their unspoken trauma experiences to their graves. It took tremendous courage for Epstein survivors to speak out in public. I hate people who don't understand how difficult it is to talk about SA traumas in public in the first place - much less do so when the perpetrators are super rich, very powerful public figures. It took me 15 years to speak up in public about what happened to me as a teen.

#BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors

I need to vent about the #EpsteinFiles as a teen survivor of SA, who never got to see justice delivered. The guy who raped me died last year without ever being put in prison. He SAed multiple teens & young women, after assaulting me when I was 15 yrs old. He had more social status power than I had. So many people protected him instead of supporting me & others that he SAed & physically beat up. I found out over a decade after he SAed me that he was friends with many corrupt cops & they aided/abetted his multiple crimes over 3 decades. Us teens who were victimized by the same guy didn't have much of a chance - even if we had courage + solid support, to go more public back when we were teens.
Corrupt government run system protect the predators over victims. We supported each other in private to try to recover from SA inflicted traumas.

Those SA traumas never fully leave you...
You just learn how to deal with it a bit better, over time or else it can drown you with heavy emotions & block you from taking back some of your brutally stolen personal power.

I'm very pissed off about people harshly judging the victims/survivors of Epstein's(and his shitty cohorts) sex crimes. People who have never been SAed don't get that it can take many years for people to speak up about what happened to them & some people take their unspoken trauma experiences to their graves. It took tremendous courage for Epstein survivors to speak out in public. I hate people who don't understand how difficult it is to talk about SA traumas in public in the first place - much less do so when the perpetrators are super rich, very powerful public figures. It took me 15 years to speak up in public about what happened to me as a teen.

#BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors

I need to vent about the #EpsteinFiles as a teen survivor of SA, who never got to see justice delivered. The guy who raped me died last year without ever being put in prison. He SAed multiple teens & young women, after assaulting me when I was 15 yrs old. He had more social status power than I had. So many people protected him instead of supporting me & others that he SAed & physically beat up. I found out over a decade after he SAed me that he was friends with many corrupt cops & they aided/abetted his multiple crimes over 3 decades. Us teens who were victimized by the same guy didn't have much of a chance - even if we had courage + solid support, to go more public back when we were teens.
Corrupt government run system protect the predators over victims. We supported each other in private to try to recover from SA inflicted traumas.

Those SA traumas never fully leave you...
You just learn how to deal with it a bit better, over time or else it can drown you with heavy emotions & block you from taking back some of your brutally stolen personal power.

I'm very pissed off about people harshly judging the victims/survivors of Epstein's(and his shitty cohorts) sex crimes. People who have never been SAed don't get that it can take many years for people to speak up about what happened to them & some people take their unspoken trauma experiences to their graves. It took tremendous courage for Epstein survivors to speak out in public. I hate people who don't understand how difficult it is to talk about SA traumas in public in the first place - much less do so when the perpetrators are super rich, very powerful public figures. It took me 15 years to speak up in public about what happened to me as a teen.

#BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors

I need to vent about the #EpsteinFiles as a teen survivor of SA, who never got to see justice delivered. The guy who raped me died last year without ever being put in prison. He SAed multiple teens & young women, after assaulting me when I was 15 yrs old. He had more social status power than I had. So many people protected him instead of supporting me & others that he SAed & physically beat up. I found out over a decade after he SAed me that he was friends with many corrupt cops & they aided/abetted his multiple crimes over 3 decades. Us teens who were victimized by the same guy didn't have much of a chance - even if we had courage + solid support, to go more public back when we were teens.
Corrupt government run system protect the predators over victims. We supported each other in private to try to recover from SA inflicted traumas.

Those SA traumas never fully leave you...
You just learn how to deal with it a bit better, over time or else it can drown you with heavy emotions & block you from taking back some of your brutally stolen personal power.

I'm very pissed off about people harshly judging the victims/survivors of Epstein's(and his shitty cohorts) sex crimes. People who have never been SAed don't get that it can take many years for people to speak up about what happened to them & some people take their unspoken trauma experiences to their graves. It took tremendous courage for Epstein survivors to speak out in public. I hate people who don't understand how difficult it is to talk about SA traumas in public in the first place - much less do so when the perpetrators are super rich, very powerful public figures. It took me 15 years to speak up in public about what happened to me as a teen.

#BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors

I need to vent about the #EpsteinFiles as a teen survivor of SA, who never got to see justice delivered. The guy who raped me died last year without ever being put in prison. He SAed multiple teens & young women, after assaulting me when I was 15 yrs old. He had more social status power than I had. So many people protected him instead of supporting me & others that he SAed & physically beat up. I found out over a decade after he SAed me that he was friends with many corrupt cops & they aided/abetted his multiple crimes over 3 decades. Us teens who were victimized by the same guy didn't have much of a chance - even if we had courage + solid support, to go more public back when we were teens.
Corrupt government run system protect the predators over victims. We supported each other in private to try to recover from SA inflicted traumas.

Those SA traumas never fully leave you...
You just learn how to deal with it a bit better, over time or else it can drown you with heavy emotions & block you from taking back some of your brutally stolen personal power.

I'm very pissed off about people harshly judging the victims/survivors of Epstein's(and his shitty cohorts) sex crimes. People who have never been SAed don't get that it can take many years for people to speak up about what happened to them & some people take their unspoken trauma experiences to their graves. It took tremendous courage for Epstein survivors to speak out in public. I hate people who don't understand how difficult it is to talk about SA traumas in public in the first place - much less do so when the perpetrators are super rich, very powerful public figures. It took me 15 years to speak up in public about what happened to me as a teen.

#BelieveVictims #BelieveSurvivors