My Childhood Sexual Assault Story

My mom's eating disorder and her obsession with thinness that traveled to me as well. My romantic relationships in high school were sexual because my mom taught me really early on you survived through what you can get from a relationship. Intimacy was just a means to an end but I don't think it ever felt good. If somebody even hinted that a teacher or a person that I had deemed good they even hinted that they were bad then they were just like tossed out. Just so much of who I was was wrapped up and being really really thin. Like I'm this at least I know I'm skinny and I didn't necessarily have to work on it because I didn't always have access

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