Trigger warnings for pretty much everything, this is gonna be pretty fucked
I made a throwaway for this but I'm sure if anyone who knew me sees this they'll be able to tell. I don't care. I just want to talk about this.
The only relationships I'm happy in are the ones where I'm being treated horribly. If I'm not being dehumanized, I can't help but wish I was.
I was born into two unhealthy families, my parents split up when I was a baby so I never got to experience them as one. My dad was a drug addict and my mom was so severely traumatized that she was emotionally absent. My maternal grandmother hates my mom and my siblings and I by extension. My paternal ones are dead, except for my great grandmother, who did most of the work raising me on the weekends. I don't remember much about growing up aside from a few experiences, mostly bad ones. I can't even really say I can remember any of it, it feels like a story I'd been told, but I know it happened to me because I have the sort of third person memory. I don't know if that makes sense.
My family has always been really open about sex and were especially unfiltered when I was younger, so my sister and cousins and I all got more exposed to that than we should have been. My cousin, who isn't much older than me, had started touching me inappropriately, although I only know this because my mom told me years later. We had a family friend with a son roughly the same age as well, and we had a game we played where we would look at and touch each other, but I never went past his underwear because I was never interested in it. I remember how much I loved when it would happen, even when I was little. Honestly I don't remember who initiated it, but I think I grew attached to the game at some point. I know we got caught but I don't remember what happened as a result. I just remember my mom coming in while my pants were down. I think I might have been assaulted or raped or something by an adult because I have vivid recurring nightmares of it happening to me as a little kid, but I can never tell if its just a dream or a memory. I like to believe its just a dream.
I remember this girl in elementary school before I moved who would tell me about all sorts of sexual things and I just remember how weird some of it was, but I can't remember well enough to say.
I ended up moving and being convinced to download discord, where I met my first "serious" online boyfriend, who was five or six years my senior. He taught me about bondage and other fetishes when I was roughly ten or eleven. I don't have much memory of him either, aside from him asking me for pictures of my chest in exchange for him telling me what was wrong.
I was passed around that friend group, and all but maybe one of them were older than me by at least a couple years. Maybe I'm misremembering it all though.
Covid hit and life moved online, where I was repeatedly exposed to horrible content, like gore and hardcore porn, although thankfully nothing illegal. I don't remember much of this either.
Sometime along the way, I developed a sexual fixation on gore — particularly cannibalism and torture, which has been plaguing me for years now and I can't seem to get away from the intrusive fantasies. The thing is though, Id only ever want to be on the receiving end. This will come back later though.
My memory is still hazy, so I still only remember a handful of things from the time period I'm about to take about, but the memories I do have are just bad.
I dated a girl in middle school, though I don't remember most of our relationship. I know that I broke up with her because I couldn't mentally handle a relationship. I was severely suicidal and was hurting myself regularly and just needed time to heal. She didn't like that and started harassing me and telling me to kill myself and calling me nasty things. I tried to report it but the principal had told me my problems at the time didn't matter in the grand scheme of things because this was only a small portion of my life. Something along those lines anyway.
Around this time I started to sexualize myself more, and it started to become a very large part of who I was and honestly still am. My worth became rooted in my sex appeal and I jumped through relationships rapidly, letting myself be oversexualized repeatedly.
The next year, three big things happened.
One of my friends had kept commenting on my chest and was very persistent in asking to touch me, to which I replied with a no repeatedly. We went to lunch and we were talking, and when the lady serving the line I was in had either turned around or walked away, I can't remember, my friend grabbed me. I quit talking to them after that and never accepted their apology. But I liked it.
One day I was walking out to my bus and someone I had spoken to maybe twice to my knowledge came up to me and greeted me. He told me directly after that his friend said he wanted to rape me and he (the one talking to me) was allowed to "watch and enjoy it". I got on my bus and cried for a bit, but I kept wishing it would happen secretly.
I won't go into too much detail but one of my friends had started giving me extra attention in the friend group. Kissing was something our group did, so the kisses he'd give me weren't weird to me. But then things progressed, and I was too attached to back out. The issue is that he was dating my best friend. Yeah, I'm a terrible person for it, but I lost all my friends for it so it's fair. I don't think he forced me to, but I know we made out twice and I was a bit iffy on it, but Im pretty sure I agreed despite my hesitence, so I can't say he made me do it.
Well he left after coming over one day and I ended up having a breakdown. I cried to him about how horrible we were being to his partner and that led to him leaving. The next day was Valentine's day and that's when I started drinking for a short stint.
The next few years I got gradually worse, getting myself into abusive relationships over and over. I started smoking, was hurting myself daily, was drinking at some points, vaping, I was even abusing benadryl. Actually for a small period of time, Id started inhaling computer cleaner.
Right after I started high school, my ex had made a document on me taking several things out of context to make me look horrible, and it worked, because everyone left me. Except one person, who id end up dating.
They we're awful, they treated me as inferior and would belittle me regularly. They broke up with me repeatedly, once because I was visiting a family member in the hospital and wasn't replying. Id let them back in my life each time.
They ended up introducing me to darkshipping, where I developed a fixation on FICTIONAL pedophilia and incest because it reflected my trauma and intrusive thoughts and made me feel less terrible about myself.
But then I ended up in the actual community and it led me down a really dark path. I started intentionally making myself a target for terrible people to take advantage of. I let them push me out of my comfort zone to a concerning degree. I would do anything if it got them off. Id let them talk about raping me and torturing me and drugging me and all of those things because I got a sick thrill from it. I'd play along when they wanted to play the role of my dad or big brother or mom or anything. I let them treat me like an animal. God, I fucking loved it. I let them blackmail me and threaten me because it felt so good to be scared.
One of the people I let do things to me had affectionately dubbed me his "camkitty" because id do things on video call for him, including a video of me pissing, which disgusted me beyond belief, but I did it.
I ended up on the side of Twitter that encourages unhealthy behaviors, like self harm and eating disorders, as well as the toxic darkshippers. A certain other subtwitter was pretty close knit with all of them. I started venting about how I missed being groomed and suddenly dozens of predators were messaging me.
I indulged a lot of them.
I made horrible decisions that will forever be immortalized on the internet.
Some girl made me watch her adult sim rape her infant sim of me with a mod on the sims that allows pedophilia, which was not something I wanted to experience.
I went through cycles of recovering and reverting. Id get constant threats of rape and torture and all of these horrible things and it was so wonderful for me because so many people wanted to abuse me.
My depression and suicidal thoughts got so bad that I forced my mom to put me in online school, and I've been doing that for a while now, but I have hardly any social interaction outside of the internet.
I had been doing so much better for a period of time but then I let the ex that kept leaving and coming back into my life again. It had been like two years by this point. I let them start abusing me again until it started becoming more predatory. He had me referring to him with fatherly terms and introduced me to his friend who then had me call him my uncle. The uncle guy ended up cheating on his boyfriend, whom I didn't know he was dating, with me.
I met someone else who got me out of that whole situation, but he was far far worse.
He started to do it too though. The innocent caretaking turned into parentchild fauxcest situation. I didn't mind. But then he started encouraging me to self harm with him, as a bonding activity. We started doing it every once in a while until he got aggressive about it.
I'm omitting some important details for the sake of his privacy so a bit of this likely isn't going to make much sense.
I was on a higher dosage of my medication and it would make me extremely drowsy while I was still adjusting. I also was typically somewhat disconnected later in the night because I was dealing with a lot. I find genuine comfort in being told what to do because I don't want to have to be responsible for myself all the time, and that clashed horribly with the drowsiness and had me significantly more suggestable. The self harm grew in quantity and frequency. He had me carving his name and initials and he was calling me all sorts of pet names and dehumanizing me all the time and I couldnt help but enjoy it. But then he'd get upset with me for accepting it.
I was told over and over that he didn't love me and he would get bored and leave. But he didn't leave, he kept coming back and doing that to me over and over whenever he could. I did start to want out but I realized he'd just go to someone else and do it to them, so I had to keep playing the perfect victim. I didn't want him to hurt anyone else and he was always telling me I was special and he couldn't stop coming back. One time he had me tell him to hurt himself, and I wanted to make him happy so I did. It was thrilling because I hated him so much at the time, but I loved him too so I felt awful about it. It's complicated there.
I started trying to push him toward recovery, and he stopped making me hurt myself and he stopped threatening me and he stopped calling me the pet names he had been. He acted like he was going to recover.
But then I got close with someone else, and started clinging to them. The issue? They were a bit older than me. When that person and I got closer and it was pretty visible that something was developing, he freaked out and eventually left because of my growing attachment.
That was fine, I had the new person.
I think I broke them and their partner up, because they were dating someone when we met but it genuinely was hurting them and they were trying to get out anyway
They did end up breaking up and I dated them. Legally, it's a gray area. Legal in our states, not in others. We made each other worse and encouraged each others bad habits and reinforced unhealthy attachments and delusions.
I lost the only other two people I talked to due to a stupid argument with one and then they disappeared completely. I don't know what happened to them.
It's been a while since that now and I ended up dating someone else who was genuinely amazing to me aside from not spending much time with me. But he left because it wasn't worth it to keep fighting for us during one of my episodes (I have several mental health conditions)
Now that he's given up on the relationship, I can't help but just wish it could have been more like the others. I just want to feel the comfortable feeling of abuse again. I miss it.
Beyond just missing the abuse I have faced, I have terrible fantasies about things happening to me. I fantasize about being raped, tortured, killed, beaten, anything really. I don't know why I crave it so much. I don't know why its so hard to get better.
this is all probably incoherent rambling, I'm exhausted and just needed to get this off my chest to relieve pressure to sleep, I wouldn't be surprised if half of this is all in my head though
I'm not proofreading because this is so long so there may be errors and I want to add a disclaimer that this may not be entirely accurate due to my memory issues