[TW Abuse]

I once had a guy tell me that my reactions to sudden movement and physical touches were funny because I flinched away from a vast majority of them. He was about 6'1", I am 4'11". I had an abusive childhood. I felt threatened and scared and he didn’t understand why. He continued to do things that made me uncomfortable until I had to tell him why I couldn’t handle it. He backed off then, because I apparently needed to have been abused as a child to flinch or, at the worst, cry when he touched me.

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