Women of Reddit, can you share any experiences from your childhood where you encountered sexual harassment that you only fully understood later in life, or were too afraid to speak about at the time and kept it to yourself? how did those things shape your understanding of boundaries?

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1. I was raped when i was 10. Was one of the factors that led to me developing a personality disorder.

2. I was raped by a student teacher at 12. Led me to having zero boundaries because I felt like the only way anyone would ever want to look at me from that moment on is if they got all access to me.

3. I was molested by someone just a year or two older than me when I was about 8. I didn’t realize that’s what it was until later. They were kissing me, touching me and I stopped it after they touched me “down there”. I didn’t tell anyone

   It wasn’t until way later in life that I realized what it was. And it was around the same time that it clicked that something was probably happening to her at home for her to do that

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5. My cousin used to touch me inappropriately, i was 4 something. My middle school teacher was also a creep.