I don't know what to do anymore. Trigger Warning
Let me start by just paraphrasing what I said in the "Traumatic Events" forum, I should have just posted here in the start. I guess I'm just sick as a person.
"When I was around 11 or maybe 12, I was spending some time with a relative and that relative at the time was also looking after a cousin of mine who was maybe seven or eight. My cousin has always been somewhat scary, I remember the first time I met him, he promised he would get his dad to shoot me with a shotgun if I upset him.
We were playing some kind of game and at one point, he decided to add a little stipulation to it, if I lost, I had to, in his words, "kiss his willy." I lost, and I did what he said. Curiousity grew and eventually we sexually experimented. No penetration, just rubbing up against one another and we both called it off very soon. I felt wrong and I was scared. I managed to avoid my cousin for several years until I ran into his mother at a Christmas party last year.
Meeting her caused all these memories to come flooding back, and now, as a 17 year old looking back at what happened, I feel sick, I feel like a monster. Like a criminal. I feel like every person you see on those stupid "To Catch a Predator" specials.
I tried to look for advice using a local web servicefor people in my country, the operator I was talking with thought I was in danger and sent the emergency services over to my house. The emergency services were police, I later tried using the service a second time and the same thing happened.
Because of this, I am too scared of reaching out for help again, at least in a more open setting than this. My current partner knows about what happened, as do a few of my close friends. But other than that, I have stayed silent about all this.
I don't know what to do, or even what I am anymore. I can't look myself in the mirror without being sick to my stomach, I feel as if I have already set myself up for a lifetime of being a criminal sex offender. I feel as if I ruined my cousin's life and my own. I don't want to see him, he still scares me. I don't know what to do anymore, I am 17 and I have wasted my life.
I am scared. I am sick. And I don't know what to do. Should I move on? Shrug it off? Should I hand myself into the police? Should I go all the way and just, "vanish" off the face of the Earth? "
I don't know if I'm a survivor or some type of monster, and the more and more I feel like this, the more and more I just want to bleed out the sin or something. I'm so scared of what I am. I don't even know anymore.
I'm sorry for this. I really am.
Hi there. It was brave of you to share your story. I truly believe that you are not the one to blame. I was sexually assaulted about a year and a half ago and it still eats at me. I wonder too if I should report my case since it occurred at University? Just know that you are not alone in this.
I don't even know what I am. I am even allowed to be alive?
Dear ~~toughPlace80 ,
I have heard what you said and you are not alone. Many children at that age experiment sexually, especially cousins. They are typically our first playmates at that age. It sounds to me that you were experimenting sexually, although if you were scared of him at the time, then it could be considered a sexual assault. Did he ever threaten you with the shotgun or any other means of violence if you did not do what he asked you to do?
Sincerely, FaithfulPerson
P.S. You more than deserve to be alive! You deserve to be happy and loved as well!
Dear ~~sleepyheadc4273 ,
I'm so sorry that you were sexually assaulted at University. I was too. You are not alone.
I'm so glad that you are here with us. Is there anything we can do to help you today?
Sincerely,
FaithfulPerson