The child abuse stories on this website are about physical and emotional child abuse. If you are an adult survivor of child abuse, know that you are not alone. Through this website, I will share bits and pieces of my child abuse stories that make up my book, named in honor of the alternative personality (alter) who took over when the abuse became unbearable. The purpose of this website is to put a face on child abuse through my stories, while offering hope of healing to those still suffering from the after effects of child abuse.
If you want to learn about physical and emotional child abuse, or are a child abuse survivor and looking for support, validation, and ideas for healing, you might find this website helpful. Let others who have gone before you light your path and show you the many ways they have healed themselves. There is no magic. Healing the long term effects of child abuse is a process.
While I am writing my memoir, I promote books of other’s child abuse stories via Amazon. I welcome any comments or feedback you may have about the books found on this website. If you have a child abuse story you would like to share with others through this website, you can contact me through the Contact page of this site.
Though my child abuse stories are unique to me, I don’t believe the treatment I received at the hands of my caretakers were uncommon then, nor are they now. I grew up in a family affected by poverty, alcoholism, and mental illness. My child abuse stories will show how these issues can feed into one another.
For example, the Momma in the story is someone whose mental illness allows her to function enough that to anyone taking a snapshot of most moments in time would think all is well. They don’t see the inner workings of her mentally ill mind. Only those closest to her see her paranoia and hear the messages that repeat in her head. While her beauty appears to give her power, in reality, it is her worst enemy. Learning to run from any problems that arise, by leaving the physical place and people, combined with her mental illness, she is unable to hold a job. With limited ways to make money, she resorts to periodic prostitution to for survival. The prostitution brings about feelings of self-loathing which she buries with alcohol. In her state of powerlessness, she takes her feelings out on the only person she has control of, her daughter. In order to handle the severe physical and emotional abuse, her daughter dissociates into Artie. My story is about Artie’s survival through a mentally ill, alcoholic mother and a neglectful father, and the damage it caused to her psyche.
The people in these child abuse stories are the walking wounded that you can easily find anywhere, if you know what to look for. These child abuse stories will create a multi-dimensional view, showing the various character’s humanity and the complexities of these issues. Artie’s story is one of unforgettable characters that you will come to love and hate, leaving you not quite knowing how to feel about them, but all the wiser for having known them.
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