Curveball - Child Abuse Part 2

Part Two (We highly recommend you listen to Part One first)
The host, Beth Armstrong, guides an in-depth discussion between three brave, astute and articulate women who speak together anonymously to share their stories of abuse when they were children and how it affected their lives.

As children, we grow and learn the ways of the world and what is right and wrong. Our parents and carers, who we rely on, are our guides. But what happens when those adults or any person asks you to do something, or someone does something to you, touches you in a way that doesn't feel right or makes you feel strange? Maybe you're told it's special or a secret, or that it's your fault. When someone who professes to love you and should protect you, hurts you, it's confusing and damaging at any age, especially for vulnerable children. How do you make sense of it, escape it and cope? Tonight's episode is the Child Abuse Club.

Some topics included in this discussion may be triggering or distressing for some listeners. If you need support, please contact Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Topics include:

• why the perpetrator sexually abuses a child?
• love/coercion/grooming/using the idea of love as manipulation
• abuse begets abuse as an excuse
• forgiveness
• stranger assault
• inflicting devastation on children
• invisible harm, but mental devastation
• strategies of violence or emotional manipulation to comply
• sexual abuse survivor triggers
• mistrust and defensiveness, violent reactions
• scepticism from others because of nondisclosure as a child
• scepticism because you didn't go to the police
• facing/confronting the perpetrator many years later
• visualising
• name change/moving away from the perpetrator
• hatred
• strength, using your voice/ validating having experience confirmed
• Hannah Gadsby show, “Nanette”
• family dysfunction/ ripple effect
• parenting style
• anti-secrecy / body autonomy

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Sound production: Unison Sound.
Producer: Luke Mynott, Beth Armstrong
Host: Beth Armstrong
Editor: Tom Herdman, Mija Healey.
Sound Engineer: Micayla Laurence, Cihan Siral.
Composer: Biddy Connor
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