There came a point in all of this incomprehension and helplessness where I was under attack, no one was helping, especially not the people and institutions who should have been helping when I realised society didn’t know and almost couldn't know about what was happening to me, to other people like me. Other people who were victims knew. I told the places I tried to get help from. On an individual basis people were shocked. But in terms of being able to help, they couldn’t. We have no real way of being heard, collectively, so that mechanisms might be put in place to protect us or others like us in the future. It was a terribly lonely time. You’re up against an abuser, people and institutions complicit with him because they’ve been manipulated and this ignorance of society at large.
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