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This entry reflects childhood trauma, emotional harm, and difficult family experiences.
This is based on real-life experiences and is not related to consensual BDSM, age-play, or roleplay. Reader discretion is advised.
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The Question I Was Brave Enough to Ask
There was a time I asked Anna—my biological mother—a question I didn’t even fully understand myself.
I was a child—tender, unsure, and holding more than my heart should’ve had to carry.
That means I was still young, still learning, still soft in the way children are supposed to be. But even at that age, I was carrying heavy things—confusion, fear, sadness, questions no child should have to ask. I didn’t know how to process it all. I just knew something wasn’t right, and I was doing my best to understand it.
I wasn’t trying to be difficult. I wasn’t trying to cause problems.
I was just a little girl—doing what little girls do: asking questions, seeking love, and hoping someone would finally tell the truth.
And that kind of weight?
That’s something a child should never have had to hold.
We were spending time together. She had gone into the bathroom, and like a child who didn’t know when to ask or what was right or wrong, I followed her, wanting time with her. I stood quietly next to her, not really thinking much about where we were—only knowing I had a question in my heart.
So I asked her, softly: “Why did you hurt us?”
I was scared, confused, and sad all at once.
Deep in my thoughts…
My voice was calm, but my heart was full of feelings I couldn’t untangle.
I didn’t want to start anything—I just wanted to understand.
I tried to explain what I meant, gently: Like when you spanked us. When you yelled. When you got angry and we felt scared. When home didn’t feel safe. When things went wrong or you were upset, we had to pay for it.
I wasn’t yelling. I wasn’t blaming.
I just wanted the truth from my mom.
She froze. Her whole face changed.
She looked at me and said, “That’s not true. What the hell are you talking about?”
And just like that, everything inside me got quiet.
I didn’t argue.
I didn’t push.
I turned away… and stayed silent.
But the question never left me.
That moment stuck in my heart like something too big for my hands to carry.
Because I had been brave—without even knowing how brave I was.
I had spoken something no one else had said out loud.
And she chose not to hear it.
She chose denial instead of truth.
But I still remember.
I still know.
I remember the fear.
The yelling.
The silence.
The pain.
And no matter how many times she tries to pretend it didn’t happen—I won’t.
Because the truth doesn’t go away just because someone won’t say it.
Even without her answers,
Even without her apology,
I know I did the right thing.
And looking back now, I can say this:
I was just a little girl trying to understand love and pain at the same time.
And even if no one told me then…
I was brave.
And I still am.
“Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”
—Isaiah 65:24
