Thread by @Lenatimes2

You want to know why Leaving a Neverland frustrates me the most?
It's because I know everyone's experience is different, I know not everyones abuse story will be the same but I do think most of us would have the same type of reaction 👇

I dont share my story because I choose not to & that's OK,I'm not at that point yet nor do I feel I ever will even though it affects me still.. Its ALWAYS there in the back of my mind and never goes away, there's no escaping, there's no forgetting it..

In Leaving neverland two grown men claim to have been abused over 30 years ago.. 1 of those men gladly took the stand and repeatedly stated that Michael never even looked at him wrong never mind touch him in any way.He said it with fact and gave no signs of stress for being asked

Now firstly, besides the obvious fact that no abuser in their right mind who was facing life in prison would put the person who they abused for years as their star witness, a victim of abuse of any kind no matter how 'trained' they are would surely nearly always show some..

Hesitation when being asked very specific questions about abuse.. Whether he thought it was abuse or not he was now a grown man being asked these questions and being told its not OK if something happened.. This surely would have triggered something especially as it was only

6 years before he went to shop a book about his abuse 🤔
In the film they say 'It was a loving relationship', 'we done it loads of times like when you're at the start of a relationship in the honeymoon phase' 'We used to rub each others palms when we were thinking about sex'

Remember now this is a 10 year old apparently doing this with a grown man... 'It felt good'... And of course the repeated phrase of 'sexual stuff' and Wade calling Michael his lover..
Oh and James keeping the wedding ring and gifts he got for sexual favours neatly in a box

For 30 years... This is what absolutely infuriates me about it and more so that people can actually believe it without finding any questionable issues..
There are so many things wrong with it even without seeing any facts, so many questions..

Let me tell you, I never saw it as abuse.. It was someone I loved also. I can also say I never ever enjoyed what was happening.. Did I feel safe? No. Did I feel uncomfortable? Absolutely. Did I think it was OK? Never. I didn't understand it at the time, it was just happening

to me.. I did however show signs that sometimg wasn't right. I never wanted to be alone with this person, I used to cry when I was but no one knew why. I did not think it was OK nor did I ever ever enjoy it.. When I was older I was asked and

I tried to say nothing happened, my body language said something else and they knew.
No way am I believing that a full grown man, 1: did not know it was abuse and 2: be that convincing that nothing happened if it did.

Wades smirking throughout the film(and no it wasn't a nervous smirk) and just how he spoke repeating the phrase 'Sexual stuff' constantly and even when he was explaining about something in 'a little 7 year olds mouth'. This part was also a red flag.. He reiterated this to

absolutely emotionally manipulate the audience, to trigger them and disgust them.. Say it if it happened yes but this particular part was very manipulative and just in my own opinion not how someone would describe it, had it happened.

Who in their right mind would keep jewllery if it was given to them by their abuser for doing sexual favours? And especially why would you store them so safely for 30 years? "It's hard to go back there" then why didn't you throw them away!

I could go on and on and the only reason I'm going this far is because it's important to hear real stories. It's important to know how people who've actually experienced it feel and go through. We would be the last ones to defend him if we thought for one second anything

In that film was truthful. His own nephews were abused, do people not realise they would have been the first ones to sense anything untoward going on, their awareness would have been heightened. Michael also wrote a letter to their mother warning her to be vigilant

If he was doing anything in that way why would he bring attention to it, making his own family more aware of molestation, in turn putting him in a more vulnerable position of being caught out...

I've spent a long while wondering if I should post this. I may even delete it again because I'm still not sure how I feel about what I've said but I'm so sick of these tweets of "I just watched LN and how can people still listen to his music, or he was a monster"..

2 years on and we are still here having to repeat ourselves. Facts are there for a reason. Think before you react, research before you condemn.
#FactsDontLiePeopleDo