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Mon, 2011-07-25 14:03    If you're triggered by candid stories
about sexual or other forms of assault, this may be triggering
for you. I know it still is for me, very much so. Telling this
story in this kind of detail remains incredibly difficult for
me, despite many years of healing, help with therapy, help and
healing found through helping others and a lot of support. It's
not a story I tell often, because even just typing it out or
saying it all out loud makes my hands shake and my heart race
and turns me into a bit of a mess for a bit of time after I do.
I keep hearing or reading people say things like that no one
really gets told the way they were dressed makes them at fault
for their assault, despite about a million evidences to the
contrary, and knowing far more than one person personally who
has had that experience.  Conversely (and oddly enough,
sometimes from the same people who say that first thing), I keep
reading people stating, desp