I am a survivor of child abuse, my stepdad abused me from the ages 6-15. He hit me, He verbally degraded me, and He was a horrible person. It takes a while to become a person who heals after you were abused for such a long time, it takes a while to find who you are and not to let anything you went through define you.

I am now 16, almost 17 and he’s out of my life. The memories of him are still there and will probably be there for a while and I still fear him but slowly those memories will fade and I will replace them with new ones.