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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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trumpy 9
those are some seriously garbage friends
ashyash90 8
people who haven't had it happen to them don't understand and don't know how to react. if you're really young too they probably just don't know how to handle it. I'd say only really talk about it with someone you really trust, in private. also as others have said, support groups are great.
littleunicorn_fml 7
Wth that is seriously rude
kowsee 22
Not everyone is able to talk about that kind of thing so sensitively. I am the last person to talk about death with, my way of dealing/coping is through humour. I am sorry they ended up making you feel that way, I hope you told them how it made you feel, it's not easy to open up. Maybe look into seeing a counsellor, or find someone else to talk to. Future note though, your friends may not be ready for that kind of stuff.
MicKeyMon 10
that sucks op hopefully your friend apologizes. if it's something they say a lot, it might have slipped out (I accidentally made a Your Mom joke to my dad at a family dinner. needless to say, I don't make those jokes anymore). I know it's hard to understand other's thought processes, especially as someone who's been in your situation. hopefully over time each friend will come to you and apologize and hopefully none of that was intentional.
yankasocky 7
Why would you tell something like that, to a group of people? Regardless of how close you are to them, that's grounds for a private 1on1 conversation; if you really feel the need to tell someone.
Algorithm 24
Why? Is it something OP should be ashamed of? Should OP not be able to trust people to act decently in a group? I get that it's not something to randomly bring up like it's party conversation, but expecting a small group of close friends to be good people together, not just one-on-one, is very reasonable.
yankasocky 7
"Hey everybody, I know we're hanging out and having a good time, but let me bring down the mood and let me tell you about the time that I was molested. Ok, now this wasn't awkward at all and you better react in the exact way that I expect." "Hey, you wanna go catch that new Tyler Perry flick?" Friends get together to have fun and enjoy each others company. Not be introduced to topics that monopolize the conversation and are near impossible to transition into anything else that won't be deemed as inappropriate. I feel for the poster, the situation they experienced is horrible and I wouldn't wish it on anyone...they just need to learn not to bring it up in casual group settings and not expect some sort of reaction they don't like.
DoomedGemini 38
You have NO idea the tone of the get together. Friends get together for fun, but also for comfort and support. I'm truly sorry if you've never had close friends like that.
yankasocky 7
"Pics or it didn't happen". Do you think that's something a group of adults in a book club or some 'somber society' would say? No, this is a teen, maybe early 20s at the latest. In my experience, kid's don't get together for the goal of experiencing comfort and support at that age. If they do...that's news to a whole lot of people. If frequent comfort sessions with your teenager friends were a large majority of your childhood, that sucks dude!
griddy24 18
Sadly people still act like this in their 20s and 30s though. I’m studying ******* therapeutic counselling and none of my classmates could come up with anything good to say to me when my dad died on the last week of class. We had been in the same cohort 2 years...people are disappointing.
Algorithm 24
For the "maybe they didn't know how to react" comments, it's not rocket science. "This thing happened to my friend that's really awful. I've never had any experience with this, I can't believe this happened to someone I know. What do you usually say when something terrible happens? Oh, right. 'Shit, dude, I'm so sorry.'" If they're old enough to tie their own shoes, they're old enough to know that much.
CaroLouWho 10
Well, some people do nervous-laugh when they don't know what else to say. One women I used to have a class with said that when she was told her dad had died, she was so caught off guard that her first reaction was to laugh, like in disbelief.
Algorithm 24
Yeah, definitely, I don't mean the ones who laughed - that can just be an accidental reaction too, like nervous smiling. Just "pics or it didn't happen" guy. That guy can get his shit together.
manuwish 9
they didn't know how to react, never hat something that terrible happen to them.. keep your friends op, they are innocent let them stay that way and find others or a therapist for your abuse..
howbout_thisone 13
Some friends. I'm sorry you went through that as a child. Being someone who's gone through it, I understand how hard it can be opening up about it to those you care about :( Stay strong!
rebeccacmlc 22
Oh my god **** all those people who said YDI. It's a tough situation to say that kind of thing and it takes a lot of courage opening up about it. I hope the person who made that vile comment really regrets it. Good luck OP, it was really brave of you to open up and everyone is with you here :)