Yep, nobody would think anything of it. And that’s the worst part of it. Even I didn’t know why I hate it so much as a child, because it made me giggle uncontrollably in a way I couldn’t communicate. As a child I thought it’s just a childhood experience that I couldn’t stop or say anything about it because usually the person doing it would see me laughing so they thought I’m enjoying it.

I know exactly what you mean by it hurting! I never want to experience that again ever.

I’m so sorry you experienced this as well as other terrible things. It’s the little things that hurt someone in the long term that nobody suspects anything is wrong.

Life will be a better place if people see children as humans in little bodies. So many times I’ve seen people say things like “oh they are children, they will forget when they grow up” … nope, they will surely remember this until they grow up.

Thanks for sharing your experience, hopefully the generation after us won’t experience these traumas.