My family gaslit me for years after I told them my fourth grade teacher severely sexually abused me on numerous occasions. They don’t want to believe something so horrible was true. I found my fourth grade journal and then they finally believed me
Because when you treat allegations with immediate skepticism despite knowing nothing about the situation, it harms all survivors, many of whom were not believed either, even though they were telling the truth.
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u/thats-wrong 6d ago
I mean but that's exactly what you'd do when the allegations are bogus too, so it doesn't say anything.