Today, while opening up to a few friends about how I was sexually abused as a child, one of them blurted "Pics or it didn't happen." How did the others react? With outrage? No, just with awkward chuckling. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, a guy made fun of sexual assault victims, and laughed when he heard they’re getting money and support. He also said I look like his next victim. I hit him, unapologetically. My friends told me to apologise, and that he’s really a great guy. No longer my friends. Talk shit, get hit. FML
Today, I told my friends I was kissed by a girl. They said "Yeah, probably by your mom." The sad thing is, they were right. FML
Today, I laughed at a joke in a group chat. No one else reacted. After five minutes, I realized I’d replied to a message from last week. I had to also pretend I hadn't noticed and sat in silence. FML
Today, I was in a support group talking about how my sister and I were raised in a cult. Never one to be outdone, the loud mouth of the group piped up and scoffed, “Oh please! If it didn’t make the news and no one died, then it wasn’t a cult!” Sorry I wasn’t murdered. It was still abusive as fuck. FML
Today, I decided to open up to my friends about losing my dad last year. To my horror, all they could do was laugh at and mock me, all because I said that he "unalived" himself. FML
Today, I was peppered with questions about my swollen eye and if I'd gotten into a fight. I couldn't bring myself to admit that I'd been brutally beaten into submission by a doorknob. FML
Today, at a mind-numbingly boring support session, everyone was talking about their hardships. One guy was talking about losing his leg in a car accident. I was half-asleep and asked without thinking, "Did you ever find it?" I almost shat my pants at the roomful of death glares that followed. FML
Today, after weeks of therapy for severe depression, my therapist thought it would be helpful to confess my deepest problems to my friends, to prove that it was alright to trust people. I did. They laughed. Hard. FML
Today, I was telling my friends a story. I added a few "embellishments" to make it more intense. One my friends piped up with, "I was with you, half of what you just said wasn't true". It's now all over Facebook and I'm known as "The Bullshitter". FML
Today, someone was making jokes and everyone started laughing, so I laughed. He then proceeded to look me dead in the eye and go, "What are you laughing at?" I started stuttering and mumbled back quietly, "I don't know, what are you laughing at?" He goes, "I'm not laughing" and then they all stared at me weird. FML
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RumpPlug 4
**** those friends, leave them.
Guy1009 15
Time for new friends.
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Comments (169)
blackmater12 6
who the **** takes pictures of themselves molesting a child? do they even have a brain? "pics or it didnt happen"... wtf . i feel for you OP
racmac22 7
How the hell are people voting this as "you deserve it"? No one deserves any of that by ANY means, I'm sorry OP.
starlite85 6
Because OP didn't say whether or not anyone asked or even wanted to know. If you volunteer personal information like that unwarranted, you kind oof don't get to whine if people don't react the way you want. Hence why OP "Deserved it"...and before you cry that idk what it's like for OP, I do.
diyos 15
If you can't laugh at the past, how are you going to get over it?
BloodyGlass 10
Turn to look at the person slowly and say in a low voice, "What did you just say?" Anyone who gives a shit will be very uncomfortable, if they laugh or say, "It was a joke!" I would not blame you if you punched them in the face.
pickle682 17
People use humor to get their mind around horrible situations. It may not have been what you wanted to hear right then but all these people saying drop those friends are way out of line without more detail
aShrubbery 3
I'm sorry you've got such shitty friends.
unholyswiss 19
How old are you to have such shitty friends? Are they five? geez
thatonedude55 8
I hope you never have to deal with those **** wits again. Leave them in the dust and never look back.
sockhop 9
That is a true breach of friendship. You did not deserve it. However, you do realize how difficult that conversation is. They were probably too immature to deal and flaked instead of listening and empathizing. Keep them or toss them but now you know whom to go to about the serious things in life.
GamerG0DDESS 29
This might be hard to hear, but I've been out about my sexual abusive past for awhile. I find that humor helps them cope better because it's such a tragic thing to hear. I've had more than a few shrug me off and call me a liar, others thought I was joking and took offense that I would joke about that, then some just remained quiet. Eventually, I kind of learned to poke fun at it and people started to lighten up enough to talk to me about it. So, I don't think they are necessarily being dicks, sadly, it's a common reaction. Keep your head up and try to let it go, understand that not everyone will take the news great. They WILL get awkward about it, but I promise you, it won't always be like that with everyone. Just have to learn how to tell the news in a different way is all. I know it's stupid, you're the one who suffered the trauma, but it's a lot to take in when you learn your friend (possibly friend of many many years) was a victim of something so dark. This is just what I found throughout my years of communicating what happened to me and educating those about sexual abuse.