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\nComment by Brian on 29 Jan 2010 at 5:01 pm<\/span><\/p>\n
Hi Karen.<\/span><\/p>\n
I read your book for class and my questions are:<\/span><\/p>\n
1. If you were a child victim of abuse and rape and didn\u2019t know you were being abused and raped then how could it affect you as being abused or raped?<\/span><\/p>\n
2. Isn\u2019t it true that you need to know what\u2019s happening to you to know would be affected by it?<\/span><\/p>\n
3. If you didn\u2019t know about everything then how did your mind create alters when there was no knowledge present of wrongdoing?<\/span><\/p>\n
4. How do you explain your ability to create your way of coping?<\/span><\/p>\n
Thanks much.<\/span><\/p>\n
Brian<\/span><\/p>\n
New Buffalo, MI<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dear Brian,<\/span><\/p>\n
Thank you for your challenging questions. I will attempt to answer them as best I can. <\/span>A child doesn’t understand the act of rape. <\/span>I never knew or understood that I was being raped. For me, as a child, it was all about being traumatized and being forced to comply. <\/span>A child doesn’t need to understand what is happening to her, a child simply believes that the abusers act out of love, painful love. A child doesn’t know any better. As for me, I believed all children were treated the same. It was confusing, and I didn’t know any better. I was a child and hadn’t developed a true sense of right and wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n
I’m not sure how to explain my creation of multiplicity. It’s an incomprehensible illness. I’m not a therapist and can’t answer professionally, but in my opinion, I believe my alters were created from the trauma that came from being manipulated, sexually abused and controlled, day in and day out, in a persistent manner. I believe my mind created a sophisticated coping mechanism that fragmented my abuse into pieces, like a puzzle before being put together. These puzzle pieces were divided up between my alters with each alter sharing part of my memory, until I was able to deal with it all in a safe manner.<\/span><\/p>\n
I hope I have answered your questions.<\/span><\/p>\n
Karen<\/span><\/p>\n
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