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"Slowly, I can feel the pain making its way up my legs, into my very self, into my soul. Whispering words of truth: "He'll be back, they all will".
Making my way back to life, I see the pictures going by, like in the cinemas, My childhood pictures capturing the world around me... and I can only watch.
Sometimes fear crawls up in my knee and we watch the screen together, too scared to even blink the eye.
And I know, suddently I know, I'm not the victim in the horrormovie, I'm the survivor!"
As a friend of mine once said: "There's two things you have to try to avoid, -the first thing is becomming an offender, the second one is staying as a victim".
There are a few things in common for all survivors of childhood trauma, but it's not therefor possible to put people into categories saying that since this child is poor and has several brothers and since the father is an alcoholic, she will be abused, -of course it's not as simple as that.
Abused children come from all social levels, from singleparenthomes aswell as fosterhomes or homes were both the father and the mother are active parents.
Not even the personality or the looks or even the gender gives good indications on whether a child will be abused or not. Both shy aswell as spontaneous children, girls aswell as boys are molested, but generally speaking, more girls than boys are being ritually abused if you may believe the statistics.
BUT: There's one thing every single one of the children exploited to ritual abuse have in common; they all were very unlucky. And that, what happened or still is happening should NOT.
The fact that a child is being abused is easier to spot since it's easier to see when a child is not feeling well.
It's often a long way for a victim to become a survivor, some victims never reaches that point. This due to murder, selfmurder, insanity etc, and talking about healing isn't really fair, since the scars will always be there. But it IS possible to take the command over what is supposed to be one's life and to get a reasonable life where oneself is the one to make the decisions.
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