February 21, 2019
In the past year I have grown by leaps and bounds. I have discovered many things that have been hidden from me in my own mind from past events long ago.
First of all, I want to talk about sleeping/depression. So as a very young child I have had to have surgery on my eyes. I’m pretty sure my mom told me that the first surgery I had was when I was 18 months old. I have had 16 surgeries since I was born. Seven of them by the time I was in the 5th grade. That is also the time I started wearing contact lens. I really disliked them. By this time I was already sick of the eye issue and I wished it would just go away. Haha on me. As a small child both of my eyes were bandaged at one time. So, when you can’t see anything, and you have just gone through surgery what do individuals usually do? They sleep. So, this was really an epiphany for me because this I believe to be the origin of my depression. Wow was I stunned when I discover this about myself.
The second thing I have recently discovered is that when I was raising my son’s, my oldest came to me and told me of a sexual incident that happened to him. (I have to say incident because I really don’t know what happened. All I can go by is what my son told me. And during that time in society, people just didn’t believe you about such things) I did not remember this until Dr. Ford, was testifying to an unwanted sexual assault to a judiciary committee, by the person who the POTUS at the time wanted on the SCOTUS, B.K. I will not use his name because I believe Dr. Ford. During this debate my nephew posted on FB that he felt so sorry for B.K. And look at how he is crying. Wow, this turned into a war of words me protecting the rights of rape/sexual assault victims, and women who have had abortions. And he and his friends calling women liars and baby killers. I fucking blew up. My God my nephew was talking like a male pig. I was so shocked. I was called a lesbian. Oh, wow those stupid men thought that I cared what they were calling me. Surprise!!! I have been called most horrid names in the book of names.
It was at this time that I remembered what my nephew had done to my son. I private messaged him and told him that I had seen his mom get raped and had to call the police. Him and his friends just kept on slandering women left and right.
Then I explained to him that I remember what he did to my son when they were 10. He said I was crazy and Unfriended/blocked me. Then my sister did the same.
This is really irrelevant to me. I have the right to break my silence for all these years. It does haunt me about my sister’s rape, because I begged her not to go out of our room to talk to that person. But she would not listen, she left the room, next thing I hear are plants being pulled over, lots of things crashing to the floor. This person that raped my sister was my oldest brothers’ best friend. My brother was downstairs and he NEVER came upstairs to see what was going on. From that day forward I hated my brother for letting his friend do that to his sister, and then I had to call the police and nothing was done. He was sent on his way. I also believe that that experience made sex difficult for me to process correctly.
And then I also broke down and cried because of how I had brushed my son off when he told me of the sexual incident of his cousin rubbing on him and ejaculating on my son. That is what my son told me happened. I don’t know if it had happened before, or who did that to my nephew but I was ashamed of my behavior and ashamed because I did not speak up for my nephew at the time. I feel someone was doing that to him.
Now we are all adults. I wrote an amends letter to my son. I do not know if he read it because we are estranged. About a year ago he put his hands on me, around my throat and pinned my arms. His daughter was here and hid when it all started to go down. I am glad. So, I did not really fight back or call the cops because I was worried about my granddaughter that was 4. He is not allowed in my house any longer. I really believe that the sexual incident that happened to him changed him. This is when he started to steal, lie, skip school. So yes, as I watch programs about children that were molested when they were young it really screws them up. I believe that this in part sent my son into a bad state of being.
Whether my nephew or his mom believe what I wrote is of no concern. It was a sickening scab that I had to pull off to move forward.
I hope anyone who reads this can find help in my story and are able to tell the stories that are keeping them sick. I try to wipe my slate often.
Say I’m sorry when I have hurt someone.
Make amends for the hurt that I have caused when possible
Try to be a better person today then I was yesterday.
And try to remember that my family’s guilt is not mine to carry. I was not the cause of the dysfunction that was rampant in my growing up I was just a kid trying to survive.