Sunnygurrl t1_iu4w0fr wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:54 PM

Reply to comment by rpaul9578 in TIL Chester Bennington, lead vocalist for Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots, hung himself in 2017 because of depression stemming from SA as a child 😔 by rpaul9578

Creating awareness is fine. Pretending this going stop a person from committing a crime is what I have an issue with.

rpaul9578 OP t1_iu4wfcq wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:57 PM

I'm not pretending that this is going to stop a person from committing a crime. I do believe that we don't talk enough in this country about the long-term effects of sexual abuse and we really need to. We need to share stories like this in order for people to see them who might be thinking about hurting a child. Who might be currently hurting a child. Thinking that it's not a big deal because they might not remember it or just not thinking through how this is going to affect them for the rest of their lives. These stories are important to share. It just might help somebody.

InSearchOfGreenLight t1_iuftd01 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:12 AM

You have a point.

Maybe when I was 5 my father would have actually pondered it. Now he’s too far gone.

Maybe people wouldn’t judge fat people so much if they knew that eating disorders come out of extreme childhood abuse.