Okay. This is a long story.
I am gifted. I started college courses when I was 12, I am a junior in college at the age of 17, I am going to be a pathologist. I married a man who is similarly gifted, who is serving in Iraq. I am independent, I lived on my own two years before I married, because I had to leave home at 15.
My father was not in my life. My mother was abusive, but because I was gifted, no one saw it, I thought it was normal, and no one believed me when I started to talk. She would curse at me, yell at me, throw things at me, forced me to sleep with her naked (until I was 15, yes), and would scream at me for hours if I expressed an opinion that did not match hers.
Obviously, I got away. I got married, I have my college career, I'm coping. My grandparents, my husband, my former pastors and my close friends are the only people who believed and understood my abuse.
2007-12-15
04:17:04
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Aia S
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