Surviving This

By Incongruity

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Hear the stories of abuse survivors in their own words...

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Surviving This episodes:

10.23.2019
3:59 PM
I haven’t even told my family or my husband about this…
10.22.2019
1:18 PM
The damage was done…
10.21.2019
10:32 AM
The things that happened made me stronger…
10.18.2019
7:59 PM
I didn’t know that it was wrong…
10.17.2019
4:58 PM
It caused me so much shame…
10.17.2019
1:49 AM
I remember being drugged and raped…
10.16.2019
2:15 PM
I lost my virginity to rape when I was 15 years old…
10.16.2019
8:27 PM
As an only child, you know, there wasn't a lot of options for me and where to go…
10.13.2019
3:39 PM
I took the edge off way too much, apparently, and um I got raped…
10.12.2019
5:33 PM
I don’t remember when the abuse started…
10.11.2019
11:08 PM
He decided to take advantage of that moment to touch me…
10.10.2019
1:11 PM
I was sexually abused probably the age of two or three by our neighborhood kid…
10.09.2019
6:58 PM
Harassment or abuse definitely skyrockets when you're a woman or even a male in the military…
10.09.2019
4:29 PM
This man really played the long game with my dad…
10.08.2019
2:10 AM
About four or five guys, just taking their time…
10.08.2019
9:11 PM
I was nothing has been a troubled child…
10.07.2019
12:08 PM
It was them using me for practice, then going to their boyfriends…
10.07.2019
9:34 PM
I had two fairly significant experiences, unfortunately…
10.06.2019
6:53 PM
It was actually my step-brother…
10.05.2019
7:49 PM
I have not been sexually abused myself, but I found out that my brother had when we were when we were younger…
10.04.2019
11:21 AM
I did that too after she did that to me because I thought that was normal…
10.03.2019
6:34 PM
For me it was my dad…
10.03.2019
4:59 PM
In the Afghani culture they’re very “lovey”, very hands-on…
10.03.2019
8:40 PM
I was about 3 years old…
10.02.2019
8:06 AM
I threw myself down the stairs and had a miscarriage…
10.01.2019
5:09 PM
I was raped and abused by my softball coach…
10.01.2019
3:01 PM
As he was talking to me one of his hands started going into my shorts…
10.01.2019
2:47 PM
You helped me realize that I was molested by my brother…
10.01.2019
2:25 PM
I don’t have advice of any nature. Still kinda looking for some myself…
10.01.2019
2:01 PM
What happened there happened to a lot of kids…
10.01.2019
1:15 PM
He hid cameras in my vents and watched me…
10.01.2019
11:53 AM
It’s really hard to talk about because I feel like I was so old when it continued to happen…
10.01.2019
11:25 AM
It was my dad and I was a freshman in high school…
10.01.2019
10:07 AM
These are words that I’ve never, in 30 years, spoken before…
10.01.2019
8:44 AM
The worst part wasn’t physical. The worst part was feeling like I deserved it…
10.01.2019
9:32 PM
My story starts at 5 years old…
10.01.2019
9:11 PM
I was molested by a cousin from the age of 8 to 13 or 14…
10.01.2019
7:09 PM
I’ve had many counsellors tell me that I was lying…
09.30.2019
5:34 PM
I’ve actually been assaulted from the age of 7 until I was about 23 years old…
09.30.2019
4:33 PM
He asked me first if I wanted any Cocaine…
09.30.2019
4:16 PM
I tried to tell my family but they didn’t really listen…
09.30.2019
11:32 AM
Having lost my virginity at 4 to my step-grandfather who was into his 70’s has fucked me up as a person…
09.30.2019
10:52 AM
I lost my virginity when I was 17 and I didn’t want to…
09.30.2019
9:06 AM
When I was 7, going to school, a neighbor used to stop us…
09.30.2019
8:52 AM
I just remember drinking a lot that night…
09.30.2019
8:28 AM
When I was a kid I was mostly alone…
09.30.2019
8:33 PM
My father was an absolute asshole…
09.30.2019
8:28 PM
I just hope that people will find the courage to speak up…
09.29.2019
6:34 PM
I’m 47 years old now and I’ve actually never actually talked to anyone about it…
09.29.2019
5:07 PM
Basically my father was selling me and my little brother for drugs…