Okay. So, I was four years old, and I had a best friend by the name of (blank) and I went to his house just like any other four year old would do in preschool  - whatever you know that's what we used to do. And I was at his house, and we've started playing truth or dare because my best friend had an older brother, who was probably a bit younger than us now - like 12 or 13. Right, so he was probably going through the stages of like teenage shit - whatever teenage boys do at 13. And so it was my turn to be picked on, and I said “dare”, because that's just who I am right? Or who I was. That's Jesse. And he said (apologies for the language), he said, lick (blank’s) penis, or you have to go home. And I'm like thinking, “I don't want to go home.” I don't want to go home because I am happiest at my friend's house. And so I was kind of forced into doing it. And, I mean, looking back at it, it's like, I don't think that, like when I wake up in the morning I look at myself, I don't think about oh like that horrible day that put me in therapy for probably about 10 years. But I never saw my friend after that day. No, never. It took me probably about a year to tell my parents what happened. And then, because I don't really think that it was that crazy because I mean, I'm still like young and innocent. I don't really like know what happened. I just knew it was wrong. I didn't know. I just didn't realize, like magnitude of the situation, right. And my parents got on with that older brother- they liked him, trusted him. I think that in a way kind of explains how like bad of a situation it was. That is actually what freaked me out and yeah I mean I look back at it now, like I was young I was four. Four! With everything that's like been going on with like everybody coming out, it feels kind of weird, kind of, to talk about this from my past because like, in a way I feel like I have some association with that whole kind of movement, but like, I don't know. Yeah.

I feel like it happened so long ago that like, I'm sure his brother’s changed, I'm sure. I think it had to do with like youth. I don't feel the need to reach out. Like, at the time I think my parents talked about some legal action but like, I was at a mental state where doing something legal probably wasn't the best idea. And just like trying to get me over that hump, was just the best thing to do. The interaction. It was pretty profound. I feel like when people look at me, they couldn’t possibly think about this, what happened to me. What I’ve lived with. I feel like there's no way it crosses anybody's mind. So, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I thought I'd share. 

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