#like just imagine tfem dave strider and a brown-furred catgirl just aggressively handshaking like ‘MY MAN’ and youll understand how we felt

[littlecourse]

i think people need to stop talking about sexual abuse (including assault in this) differently than other forms of abuse. imagine acting like abuse made people “dirty” or ruined them forever and then trying to turn around and go “oh but you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what happened to you” like you aren’t adding to the stigma yourself

sexual abuse is just a bad thing that happens to some people and it doesn’t mean anything about their “purity”

sexual abuse is a bad thing that happens to some people and it just hurts and sometimes you have to live with the damage until you die but that doesn’t make you ruined at all.

you still deserve to (and can!) live a happy, satisfying life as someone who has scars instead of wounds