Category: Trauma
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Alt Grrl goes to Alt school
From the time I was in 6th grade, to the time I graduated I was in love with my best friend. He knew it, I wasn’t subtle and I followed him around like a puppy because he was affectionate to me when he wasn’t being an ass. As things were,…
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Hot for Teacher
TW: CSA, Grooming When I was 16 years old, I was befriended, groomed and molested by my teacher in training. A 24 year old college student assigned to my class to shadow my English teacher, whom I still adore to this day. The teacher, not the groomer. He actually came…
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I’m not ignoring you…
Dear readers, I will attempt to keep this a regular thing as I have many adventures to detail, and lots of trauma to dump! However, in the last few weeks I have not been my best self, due to a combination of pain, exhaustion and processing years of childhood trauma.…
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Mean Girls: The Prequel
Often I will relate a story from my youth to a friend or my husband that takes them aback, this story is about a group of “friends” I had in high school that created an entire burn book dedicated to lil ol’ me. TW: Emotional Abuse, self harm
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Debutante backseat of Jackie’s car…
I re-watched the 1993 Nutcracker movie with my husband on Saturday, and it unlocked some core memories. I was not always the neon goth peacock you know and love (or at least tolerate), for a time growing up there was an attempt (that I fought at every conceivable event) to…
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