Thread by @AynRandPaulRyan

A few days ago, one woman asked me to share her #MeToo story anonymously.
Then another woman asked.
I posted 3 stories, and the floodgates opened.
Here are the first 30 of the hundreds of stories you've trusted me with.
I am so honored to share them.
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"Writing this out felt so good that I just drafted a two-page letter to the current pastor of that church, imploring him to stand for victims and be the change that we need." ❤️❤️❤️

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"I am 15 and to this day, he still asks me to sit on his lap, kiss him, and he has tried to touch my breasts. My father, grandmother, mother, and other grandmother have also sexually assaulted me."

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"When I tried to tell someone, they laughed at me and told me I was a bad liar. I've been scared to tell people the story since, but I'm only 15 now. It was only last year, and if I can get assaulted in a safe place, any girl or boy can. Make the world safer."
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"He was an NFL star and I was nothing but a stripper. He knew what he was doing. He knew no one would believe me over him. He used that to rape me and never looked back...these monsters must be stopped."
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"More and more children are surviving horrendous things, growing up in their own war zone where they aren't even given a weapon to fight back. We grow and we fight. We are not victims of sexual abuse, and we aren't survivors. We are warriors."

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"I was molested as he turned toward my sister. After he told me he would kill my family if I told."
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"I had headed to the back bedroom and he wasn’t far behind. It’s where many of the videos were kept and my blanket for when I stayed the night. I grabbed my blanket and turned and faced a gun in my face."
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"Who do you blame? The sick men or the silent women?"
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"He destroyed a part of me and took it, and he did not even remember my face."
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"I told my other supervisor, who in turn told HR. HR, in turn, told me they couldn't do anything because it happened outside of work and if I was uncomfortable then I could choose to relocate to a lower performing store, the outlet."
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"I don't think a lot of people realize just why victims are so afraid to come forward."
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"All because an innocent five-year-old girl is not a 'credible witness' compared to a grown, perverted, male liar."
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The bravery of this young person, recording their attacker, is commendable.
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"I've admitted it to no one in 50 years. He's dead now. I've been dead inside for 50 years."
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"...so I told my mom I made it all up to get attention and it all went away...for everyone else."
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"Passing out was the only way I could get away from him."
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"I ran away 13 years ago from Cali to NYC and made something of myself. But nothing is enough. Monsters follow me everywhere I go. I am 39 years old and still sleep with a blankie and stuffies and push the furniture up against the door every night."
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"I was forced to do thing I never should have known about at that age."
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"My father’s was initiated when I was a child, my brother’s when I was a teen. By the time my brother started, I had a few strategies to stop at least part of it. What doesn’t get talked about often is the concurrent abuse by family members."
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"I know I should have spoken out at the time, but to be honest, I didn't want any possible career clouded by it, especially since the main guy made it clear if I ever spoke about it, he would ruin me."
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"I now do investigative work pro bono when it comes to cases with abused children. We can move past these experiences and rise above it but it usually requires opening that initial wound and saying something."
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"I am now 16 years old and I still haven't built up the courage to say anything to my family but I'm working on it."
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"She yelled at us and told us not to tell anyone as she is having a hard enough time getting along and didn't need us to make things harder on her."
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"This next part my husband doesn't even know...I got pregnant. I called and told him (her rapist). He came, drove me to a clinic, threatened me again, handed me a wad of cash and told me "You better take care of it". To my everlasting shame, I did."
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"The next morning there was an envelope on my desk with $1k cash. A bonus, he called it. This well-to-do man fired me about one month later when I refused to comply again. Refused unemployment. I lost my apartment and moved back home. Broken. Never told anyone until now."
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"I thought he was examining me until years later when it came out that he was molesting underaged patients."
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"By the time I was 11 I had already promised myself any further attacks would not just be fought against as I always had, but I would fight to the death before being raped again."
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"Professional help doesn't help that much. It helps some. But they can't change the past and can't remove your knowledge that the world is full of Monsters and Enablers and Assholes."
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"By the time I was 11 I had already promised myself any further attacks would not just be fought against as I always had, but I would fight to the death before being raped again."
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