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I’ve known since I was 12 that my parents will always believe the other side before me. A thread.
When I was in middle school, a group of kids were bullying me. Putting notes in my locker, taking pics of me, saying hurtful things like “please kill yourself for everyone’s sake”. I came to my parents, sobbing and scared. They called the school who told them I was lying...
.... I was punished for fabricating a story. I begged to switch schools. After my parents went to the principal, the target on me was worse. 3 more years I had to put up with this torture until I was finally allowed to switch schools.
Fast forward. I’m 16. Our house gets broken into. Everything expensive is gone, and the person also went thru my bedroom, my mothers room untouched. I was sat down and asked if it was people I associated with-a teenage girl.
4 more years pass. I’m in an entirely different time zone. I get in trouble for something I didn’t do (wrong place wrong ppl, I’ll take the fault) ... however when I called my parents for help I was hung up on after hearing “you’re grown, you’ll figure it out”.
3 months after my 23rd birthday, I was assaulted. I was hospitalized. My parents asked me what I did to provoke this man, and why I chose to interact with him in the first place. Told me “you tend to fabricate the truth, just trying to find facts” in front of the investigators...
...who then dropped my case because “if your own parents don’t believe you, a judge certainly won’t”. The man who assaulted me has never even been questioned.
Fast forward to 2020- I’m told “I’m on my own with this” because “safety is way more important than any protest” and “you started it” and “you’ve embarrassed the family” ..... not a single family member reached out to me in the last 2 days. Today I was told I cannot reach out....
.... because I’ve “made my choice to be on the wrong side of this”. Both of my parents posted about it on Facebook, but neither has reached out or asked about my well-being....
Okay my thread is finished but the point is—believe victims. Believe the people that are actually there. Stop believing media. And if you don’t have anyone to believe you, be there for you, or fight for you, know I AM HERE. WE ARE NOT ALONE. 
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