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I’m a Sex Abuse Survivor

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at USC chapter.

I would go into all the details but really, I don’t think anyone would want to know.

There seems to be a stigma surrounding abuse survivors. I know this because every time I tell people it’s like all of a sudden they don’t know how to act around me.

I don’t think there’s any shame in admitting it. It wasn’t my fault. I didn’t do anything wrong.

To all you other abuse survivors out there, it’s not your fault either.

I hope one day you all feel strong enough to tell your stories.

But for now…here’s mine.

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Merisenda Bills is a senior majoring in Broadcast and Digital Journalism at USC. She is double minoring in Digital Studies and Interactive Media and the Culture of New Technologies. She is also in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship Program. She has a passion for writing, photography, and all things multimedia and hopes to find a job doing these things when she graduates college. When she's not running around working on a story, she's doing crafty things like crocheting and painting. She lives her life to the fullest without regrets.