Thank god this community is here.
Um, hi.
I haven't posted to LJ in eons. This is my first time in a while. And it isn't that I'm a friend of someone who's abused, but I've been abused myself and....and I'm having a lot of difficulties in all my interpersonal relationships because of it.
I'm homosexual, my parents don't really talk to me now because of it, so family isn't an issue, but... I have trouble communicating to my friends what I need and what I know. Physical touch makes me flinch. Intimacy frightens me.
I really need some friends and some guidance on how to get....how to tell people what I need and how to reassure them about my abuse when I haven't at all been reassured myself. I just need some company and to learn how to live with non-abused people.
This sounds like a good place to do that.
I haven't posted to LJ in eons. This is my first time in a while. And it isn't that I'm a friend of someone who's abused, but I've been abused myself and....and I'm having a lot of difficulties in all my interpersonal relationships because of it.
I'm homosexual, my parents don't really talk to me now because of it, so family isn't an issue, but... I have trouble communicating to my friends what I need and what I know. Physical touch makes me flinch. Intimacy frightens me.
I really need some friends and some guidance on how to get....how to tell people what I need and how to reassure them about my abuse when I haven't at all been reassured myself. I just need some company and to learn how to live with non-abused people.
This sounds like a good place to do that.