Growing up pretty fast

by Ed
(Nazareth, Pa)

When I was in the 6th grade, I was molested by two guys one grabbed me from behind while the other forced me down on the floor of the bathroom. One held his hand over my mouth so I wouldn't scream while the other proceeded to unbuckle my pants. Of course, I blacked out so I don't remember too much after that. All I remember when waking up everyone was standing around me looking and laughing.


Then after that my mom got sick, I mean really sick with some form of mental illness(though it wasn't until years later in her old age she was finally diagnosed). So I didn't really have time to get mad and hurt because I had to help raise my sibling, take care of my grandfather who was living with us at the time (at the same time he had sugar diabetes), and help take care of my dad.


Ed


Thanks for sharing Ed. That sounds like a pretty full plate for a young person to have to carry. I hope in the later years of your life you have time to go back and process some of that and make something good out of it. No one should have to carry that much responsibility that early in age.

God bless you in your search for answers.

Shayne