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Child Abuse Story From Ashley

by Ashley
(USA)




I almost hate posting here after reading some of these heartbreaking stories. My childhood experiences are not quite the same but they are traumatic and have caused tremendous negativity in my life and with my parents just the same. I feel my low self-esteem is attributed to my memories of shame. I also have other issues because of the abuse that I am trying to overcome.

I lived a pretty normal life in most ways...I lived in a nice house, I ate three meals a day, we had a dog. I had toys. Not that bad compared to other people's situations, I suppose. But my parents confused me and hurt me so bad and I don't know if they even realize it. I was spanked as I child and I am still so disturbed by it. I got spankings as far back as I can remember. When I was really young, I remember getting my diaper (or pull up, whatever) pulled to the side to get my smack. I vividly remember the first time I was ever really spanked. I was preschool age and was dressed for church (I think, or else someplace where you had to dress nice) my mom had told me about 4 times to not jump in the leaf piles, we were about to leave. I did, and the next thing I knew my dad was marching outside. He took my hand, led me into the living room, and sat down on the couch. He began to unbutton my pants and I was so terrified. My mother stood behind me, watching. He pulled down my pants and underwear together and I just stood there, sobbing. He didn't turn me over his knee or anything, just slapped me on the bare butt about 5 times while I stood up. My mother came from behind me and hugged me. My pants were still down as she told me why daddy had to spank me and that they loved me so much and it was their job to keep me safe and to help me learn to listen. She pulled up my pants and buttoned them, then told me to get into the car and to stop crying. I got spanked standing up like that many times in my younger years, and thinking back on it now, it makes me sick. It's like he wanted to expose me, not even have my genitals covered. My dad was such a great guy in so many ways but I swear and I know it's sickening to think about, I think he knew that getting my pants pulled down was so terrible and embarrassing for me, and he was glad. As I got a little older, he started putting me over his knee for spankings instead of standing up, but he still unbuttoned my pants. He would pull them down before he put me over his knee, then position me. As he was pulling down my underwear, he would tell me how much he loved me and how much he hated to spank me. By the time he started to actually slap my butt, I would be close to a heart attack, the worse feeling of helplessness you could ever imagine. This might sound really stupid, and I know it does, but one of the worst parts of the spankings (besides the part where dad or mom began to take down my underwear) was that they were never very hard, more of light slaps instead of hard smacking. In other words, no, they weren't pleasant, it did sting, but it wasn't incredibly painful. This gives me the sick sensation that the punishment was more of meant to embarrass me rather than hurt me. I can't believe my parents did that to me. Because of them I get a sick sensation when I see or hear a child get a spanking. It's disgusting. The absolute worst spanking I ever got was the one and only time I ever got a spanking in front of another person besides my mom or sister, and it was the single most traumatic event in my 28 year old life. My uncle was visiting from about 2 hours away, and it became late and my parents invited him to sleep over so he wouldn't have to drive. I was 10, and pushed my 6 year old sister down when she tried to sit next to my uncle on the couch right before we went to bed. She got mad and hit me, and I pinched her really hard. My father stood up and grabbed my arm. I knew what was going to happen and I was almost in shock. i don't know what I expected him to do, but when he didn't make a move to relocate to privacy I panicked. I ran to my room and locked the door, and my dad came and told me that if I didn't unlock it he would get in anyway and it would be worse. I begged him not to spank me, and he calmly said that yes, he was going to spank me. Crying, I begged and pleaded for him not to pull my pants down. He said he was going to. I was a wreck, about to pee myself and feeling so ashamed. I felt a familiar panicked throb in my genitals. I was so scared I refused to open the door, and my dad went and got a screwdriver to take the doorknob off. The whole time I heard the buzz, I knew what was about to happen. I was crying so hard. My father came into my room and literally dragged me to living room. He smacked my hands away from the buttons on my jeans and yanked them down, along with my underwear. He began to spank me the old way of standing up, at least 5 times before he put me over his knee. My uncle was watching the whole thing. I stood there, with my hands covering my vulva, getting smacked on the butt. After he was done spanking me over his knee, he made me apologize to my uncle with my pants still pulled down. I hate even thinking about this. I got so many of these terrible punishments.






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Dec 28, 2011
Ashley:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

It really is the trauma and the effects that are important when dealing with what happened in our childhoods, not necessarily the severity of whatever abuse we endured; and you're the poster child for such effects. Proponents of spanking hail the humiliation and embarrassment of this form of physical "discipline" as "part of the package". They claim that humiliation is part of the punishment. I vehemently disagree. I believe that the humiliation is part of the emotional abuse that spankings bring. It's one of the many reasons I am so dead set against it. Parents who use such methods are utterly misguided...and the greatest problem is that they refuse to listen to reason on the long term, if not life-long effects that spanking brings. It is so disturbing to me that parents actually try to brainwash their children when spanking them, saying they're doing it because they "love" them. I don't buy it, and I never will. Hitting a child is wrong on so many levels, whether it's on their bottom or across the face. I fail to understand how our society applauds parents for spanking their children for misbehaviour (children who are basically powerless), yet we charge and incarcerate those same parents if they assault a full-fledged adult who has the capacity to defend him/herself. I've never been able to wrap my brain around this. The adverse affects of spanking are so well documented, yet it continues.

You can get beyond this, Ashley. I strongly suggest you seek out some form of counselling or therapy in order to deal with these terrible effects, Ashley. Thank you for sharing your story with my visitors and me.

From Victim to Victory, a memoir
Darlene Barriere
Webmaster: www.child-abuse-effects.com
author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir

Dec 29, 2011
Ashley
by: Anonymous

Ashely, what sick, cruelly insane, deluded parents that you had to beat you 24/7...how dare they! That's not discipline; that's just torture. That's not about love; that's just all about power and control. The path that they chose is inexcusable. Oh, and as for your uncle watching that scene...appalling! I'm sure that's because your parents themselves had no respect for you and even your privacy. They had the mindset that you were to be submissive and obedient at every cost. As for your mom, shame on her for running away from you instead of protecting you from that brute of a father! A mother who chooses a sick man over her own precious daughter is the mother who doesn't deserve to have said daughter in her life. Oh, and gloating about spanking you really shows me how uneducated and ignorant they really are. I really hope that you're out of that house now. Oh, and did I mention that they also abused your sister by grooming her to be a bully? Anyway, you are not to blame; they are to blame because they chose to abuse you. You were the child; they were the adults; they had all the power and only chose to misuse that power over you, so please tell someone you really trust and keep telling until he/she will finally listen to you and help you.

Dec 29, 2011
Not alone
by: Scott 1

Hi Ashley. You are not at all alone in your feelings of resentment and deep seated shame. I am also a survivor of a similar shaming ritual in that I was also displayed. Made powerless by an adult as a child. My shaming happened at the front of the classroom. For all friends, nonfriends, neighbours alike were forced/allowed to watch. Unable to breath as your heart tries to escape out your throat causing you to choke and not be able to breath, panic at being undressed in front of others as just part of a punishment. What common sence does that make? Why allow others to watch?!! So you can see I too understand how you feel. Many of us do and live our lives now with the risidual effects. Many like myself have shared their story as a first step in releasing and exposing something not talked about and kept hidden. Im glad you found the courage to share your experiences as writing does seem to help and finding others that have witnessed and experienced the same things will make you feel less alone and more able to let your guard down and perhaps write more if you so choose. Your story my friend is no less awful than the others. Noone can judge how we are effected but us. Its abuse and shouldnt be minimized. I understand. It happened to me.

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