BatChick98

Thanks @waterlily13 Today was a rough day unfortunately, but also good in a lot of ways. He told me details... lots of details. It was the first time he had said what happened to him out loud and he said that as hard as it was it was very beneficial. I'm so glad to be able to shoulder some of his pain because I can't imagine what you all have been through... No one should ever have to deal with that alone.

Thank you all for the help and support! Right now we are working on reading through a bunch of survivor stories. I showed in an article today about what is normal and some of the myths vs. realities about sexual assault especially regarding men, as that involves an extra set of difficulty. Unfortunately we were in the library at our college and he couldn't open up as much. Our biggest issue is that we have nowhere we can go to be alone together as in his culture, men and women cannot be friends and he still lives with his parents who are very firmly against that. My apartment is a place he's c

Hey all! I am new to After Silence. Just under a week ago my best friend told me that he had been abused when he was about ten years old by his 17 year old brother. I'm the only person he's ever told and the only person who knows. He's struggling with a lot of the typical issues like blaming himself and feeling bad for the ways he reacted to it. He thinks that it is his fault because he was too weak, too trusting, and too easy. He happened to share a room with his brother and still does, so obviously none of this is true. He was groomed and was only in that situation because they shared a room