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Abuse and Neglect

Roswell

When I was in high school I got beat up every day. I was among the top 10 students in my year at one point, and then eventually dropped out of school due to not being able to face it anymore. I lost all my friends and became suicidal after what had happened to me. I never pictured myself ever ending up in a psychiatric ward but within a few years that was where I would find myself.

I was raped by a man in America while on holiday. I thought he was friendly but he had an agenda. I was lonely, I went on holiday on my own and got talking to him, he ended up getting me drunk and then taking advantage of me.

I ran away to France once, I slept on the street in Paris then had a nervous breakdown and spent 2 weeks in a French mental hospital in the countryside. 

I've been in a few psychiatric wards in this country. I was treated like dirt.

I'm 32 now and have never had a long term girlfriend and have no friends. This is the UK in 2019. What a marvellous, civilized, advanced country we are!

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  • in reply to DaveAsperg

    Thank you for buying the book! 

    It probably did help writing it. I feel I was let down by the education system and on many occasions by the NHS too (which I still believe in, nonetheless. A privatised health system like the USA's seems even worse). I also have at times, in my opinion, been betrayed by friends in school and family members, on the basis of my autism, as in my opinion they took the easy route of not making any effort to understand Autism and how we experience things and express ourselves.

    Much of that is in the book. It's semi-autobiographical. Based on my life but not all of it. I suppose it was a kind of therapy writing it. I'm thinking of getting private psychotherapy soon. I had some on the NHS but it was time limited to 16 weeks. At the moment I can afford it so am considering it. One benefit of going private as opposed to having to rely on the NHS for therapy is the NHS at the moment have targets and will only offer dialectical behavioural therapy usually.