Talking about your experience
Telling another person about your experiences of sexual abuse might be a source of anxiety and fear, or a source of relief or perhaps a mixture of the two.
There might be a variety of reasons why you did not tell someone about the abuse at the time.
It may not have been safe to disclose - the abuser may have threatened harm to you or to family members, friends, pets or treasured possessions.
The abuser may have talked about the abuse as ‘a game’, as ‘our special secret’, or as ‘normal’.
The very fact that you were a child trying to make sense of what was happening may have made it difficult to tell someone.
Sometimes children and young people do not disclose because they are worried about breaking up the family or hurting others they care about.
There may have been times when you tried to tell someone.
You may have given a clue or a hint.
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