doesn't want to open a can of worms.

And whether I did that consciously or unconsciously, who knows? But the abuse finished at eight years old, so then I turn into a slightly older child at 10 years old.

You don't have the maturity to analyze what happened to you.

You don't even have the thought process of thinking about it, really.

Your brain does a fantastic job at protecting yourself without boxing that up and saving it for later.

Then you get into your teenage years.

I wasn't thinking about this.

when I realized that I needed to do something different.

This is happening 93% of the time by people children know, and frankly, may love, may feel a- affection for, right?

Yep.

Yep.

And that statistic, for anybody that's not involved in these circles, is quite shocking, and maybe even gives you the feeling of that can't be true.

And that's, I believe, because we are jumping to the thought of the sexual abuse of a child being always a forceful, violent act where somebody has got that child pinned down and they're kicking and screaming, "Get off me." So that's not the only sexual abusive situation that we have.

Unfortunately, lots of people go through that kind of scenario.

Um, but we have various sexually abusive situations, uh, going on.

Mm-hmm.