Quote Originally Posted by ashtonDs View Post
Maybe you didn't mean it this way Greybeard, but men and boys can be victims of abuse. And women can be abusers, as was the case for me.

Also, I would like to mention that abuse does not always have to be sexual in nature.
Glad you mention this, Ashton. In fact, the "non-physical"abuse can be far more devious and devastiting. There are no easy visible signs like scars or bruises. Many times it is diguised as "upbringing" or "discipining" meanwhile terrorizing the victim with demaening and degrading remarks, or simply ignoring the victim until he or she acts as demanded.
Still wondering why some people are soooo eager to please, why some people never dare to say no, always accept even the most unfair judgements, always accept the unpopular tasks?

Worst of all, especially when parents do this (and mothers are so d*man good at it) the victim incorperates those thougts of being useless, no good, unworrthy, filthy, sinful, you name it as long as it is not positive.

This way children can become maimed for the rest of their lives without a single scar, without a single time of beating, without a single intervention or even notification by police, school or doctors. They are simply those "wierd kids" nobody understands and shouldn't complain. They should just act normal and then everything will be OK. After all, they didn't even get a single beating, their parents didn't divorce, daddy wasn't a drunk, so why should they complain?

When you meet such a "strange kid" or "wierd coworker" just think about the above before judgement