CW: Discussions of r*pe and PTSD
That’s a weird realisation.
It feels like a milestone, or like a huge anniversary.
But it’s literally the decennial of something that irreversibly changed the trajectory of my life, of me as a person, of my entire worldview.
It’s been 10 years since I was raped.
(I mean… it’s happened before and since then as well, but this was the only one I’ve reported and the entire circumstances around it were deeply deeply traumatising).
Also, what are the chances that it’d fall exactly on the 2023 Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action?? The first Tuesday of April – which is April 4th this year. Yesterday.
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