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In reply to the discussion: Richard Dawkins under fire for ‘mild pedophilia’ remarks [View all]Silent3
(15,493 posts)You are so absolutely convinced that what happened to me MUST be a trauma that the only thing you can come up with to explain what I'm saying is that I'm engaged in one of the "common coping strategies" of "minimizing and denying". If I had said I'd been traumatized, you'd accept that at face value, with no elaborate explanation about why that has to be the opposite of the "real" truth.
No. It really, really, really didn't bother me at the time. That's possible, you know. There are more possible outcomes than overt damage and hidden damage.
And where in the world did I even come close in what I've said to "blaming survivors for their abuse OR their response to their abuse"? Is it just a leap of crappy logic on your part that "it didn't bother me" somehow translates to an implied "so if it did bother you, that's your fault"?