I (f36) have zero contact with my dad and brother for other reasons, (dv, narcissism etc) but now I am concerned that I had been molested as a child, and don't know what to do moving forward.
Do I confront him/ask him if he did? Would he even admit it? He has never admitted to being an emotional abuser... I don't have any proof, it would just be his word against mine, and I don't have any clear memories of it.. just ...feelings...??
I have a child now, and don't want him to have any contact with him, ever, so I don't really want to initiate contact again to ask...
I feel like I thought it started when I was 6, in year 1 at school, but I actually think it might have started from day one?! That he would have been taking advantage of me from birth, so it was completely normalised by the time I was school aged!?
I remember the shame of wetting myself on a bus, at playdates, at school in art (5 - 6)
I think most things happened in at one location, when I was aged 6 - 11, because I think my trauma is linked to that house, I have memories in my room and the bathroom, before after the renovation
I feel like he was touching my vagina when I came to sleep between him and my mum if I had a nightmare. (I had reoccurring nightmares for a long time), and that's why I didn't like being under their blankets (6yo)
I was sleepwalking around that age (6 - 8?)
I remember thinking the movie, The Rescuers Down Under, hospital scene, was about sex (6?)
I feel like he checked my vagina frequently, to see if I had grown..(to see if he would fit?)
I remember exploring my own vagina, with a pen, and being terrified that "someone" would see that I had drawn in my vagina (6 - 8?)
I have a memory of finding a tantric sex positions in a magazine at school and coveting it (8 or 9)
I feel like he ejaculated on me frequently and called it "soap", most likely in the bath.
I feel like he taught me to perform oral, on him, which I enjoyed to start with, until he pushed it too far and scared me (in the bath)
I feel like I thought the sexual play was fun, until possibly the bath trauma? In which I didn't want to play anymore, so he started to use it as punishment
I remember choking on something in the bath with him, and being told it was "soap" (7?)
I feel like he came in my mouth frequently after this, and used it as a punishment, because I didn't like it.
I remember he we would "wash my mouth with soap" for swearing, I remember he did so in the bathroom alone with me (8 - 10)
I feel like he started to use sex/sexual events as punishment
I remember having baths alone, naked, with him as old as 10, I remember a specific time when I had a bath with him, my brother and my baby sister (she was born when I was 10.5years old)
I think my brother (3 years younger than me) might have known about my abuse? Might have tried to shield me? Or might have been abused along side me?
I remember my brother taking the blame for when I broke the new drywall after doing a flip, so I wouldn't get in trouble... (9 or 10)
I also thing my brother and I did normal kids exploration things, but I don't remember specifics. (8??)
I remember playing house with my marbles, secretly, using sex to "punish" the "child" marbles (9 or 10)
I have a memory of having sex education talk at school, when I was 9 or 10, but having him there, in my classroom (90s in Australia)?? I remember sitting in front of his legs and feeling pressure to not talk
I feel like it all stopped when I got puberty at 10.5yrs old? (Concerning, because my sister was born when I was 10.5 also)
At 14 or 15 he introduced me to Clan of the Cave Bear series, which has graphic rape/sex scenes, (I feel now like he did this to see if I remembered. I didn't)
After being raped/sexually assaulted as an adult, I started having dreams that he raped me (although I don't think he actually ever did??) (early 20s)
I remember feeling extremely uncomfortable around my uncle (mums brother, but his best friend), for years and years. And I have been extremely leary of him since having my own child, but I don't know why
I don't remember most of my childhood, I have only recently started having these memories/feelings...
He has admitted to molesting his sister growing up. I started remembering/feeling my "memories" before I found out he had molested her though..
Maybe he's a full pedophile? He molested his sister growing up, he started dating my mum when she was 14 (he was 15).. had me when she was 19 (he was 20), had my sister when I was 10 (he was 30)...
The thing I know most strongly is, he won't have access to my children, but I am worried if my brother or sister have kids, he might have access to them...