As a survivor of long-term incest/sexual abuse from a young age, I exhibit a lot of symptoms. But there are a lot of things I experienced for a long time, and continue to experience, that I couldn’t explain and didn’t recognize as part of the abuse I experienced.
I hope to help other survivors connect the dots with this article. 1. Lack of body awareness. One might describe this as being very uncoordinated or unaware of their space.
Sometimes, I will just run into people because I have no body awareness. As a former athlete, I was involved in many accidents and subsequent injuries because I simply did not understand where my body was, or anticipate the effects of how it would move. 2. Autoimmune tendencies. With the diagnosis of an
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