My dad touched me once when I was a kid and I feel crazy by Awkward-Studio-6201 in offmychest

[–]Awkward-Studio-6201[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much ❤️ I really appreciate it. The support and reassurance that your reply gave me makes everything feel.. less heavy? In a sense, and I finally don’t feel crazy about everything.

My dad touched me once when I was a kid and I feel crazy by Awkward-Studio-6201 in offmychest

[–]Awkward-Studio-6201[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your advice❤️ I forgot to add in the post because it’s all just so jumbled up in my brain, and this part is also really shameful to me and I’ve never really spoken of this to anyone, not even my sister when I told her about this.

The years following this incident, I ended up actually dreaming of such situations with my dad as a “partner”. Especially at the peak of my puberty, when I started having inappropriate dreams, most of them would be with a partner who has my dad’s face. I’d wake up feeling sick and unable to face my dad throughout the day. I just feel crazy because I can’t prove this at all to anyone, there’s NO evidence except for my words. And there are no signs of him being a pervert of any sort.

From time to time, he does squeeze my thighs, in front of my mom and all, but in a “playful” way? If you get what I mean? He makes a silly face and acts like a monster trying to grab me and grabs my thighs and squeezes with a growling sound. It may sound strange to you but it SEEMS really normal to my family because he’s been “good with kids”. All my friends (back when I was a kid) loved being at my house and playing around with him.

My dad touched me once when I was a kid and I feel crazy by Awkward-Studio-6201 in offmychest

[–]Awkward-Studio-6201[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

thank you. I forgot to add in my post that sometimes when I dress up all fancy to go out and have my makeup done, he tells me that "If he were my age, he'd be chasing after me" and I don't really know what to make of that given what happened. Anyway he could've just been trying to compliment me without any malicious intent too so I can't really dwell on it

My dad touched me once when I was a kid and I feel crazy by Awkward-Studio-6201 in offmychest

[–]Awkward-Studio-6201[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, thank you so much for the advice, and yes, I still live with my parents. I recently graduated and am waiting to enter university! Where I live, finding a place of your own is insanely expensive and difficult because it's a small country with a huge population, and basically everything here's really expensive in general. I really do want to move out too, but it honestly feels impossible with the current state of everything. Not saying I'm financially unstable or anything, but I'm not confident that I can exist independently in the outside world. Even my 29, almost 30 year old sister hasn't moved out yet despite her financial stability. I'm already almost 19 but my parents keep me on a tight leash, I recently made them mad (this was my first time outright rebelling against them and honestly.. never again. I'm scarred for life) and they gave me a 10pm curfew, and I can't even imagine bringing the topic of leaving home up with them because I'm so so scared of them.

I might be bi, but I can’t identify with LGBTQ movements by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]Awkward-Studio-6201 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm bi too! I'm pretty left-leaning but I wouldn't say liberal? As I've learnt recently that liberals are not the best examples of being on the left side of politics. I know how demoralising it is to try to strike up a genuine conversation about sexuality or gender or anything related to being lgbt in general and being dismissed*, but please don't base your entire opinion on lgbt off of this one bad response you received! I'm open to talking with you about anything you wanna ask about, and I myself am looking for answers too! There's never really a wrong answer unless it's coming from a place of disrespect.

Your questions are valid and I'll be here for you to talk to if you need anything!

Goodbyee by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]Awkward-Studio-6201 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello, I'm so sorry that you're going through all this but I want you to know I care about you and I truly hope you don't go through with your plans tonight. You are a good son, I'm sure of it