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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

I was an abused kid.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.