I don't assume I have a following on here anymore haha, but just in case, I figure I'll post some updates.
Number one:
I was raped the summer before freshman year. That means it happened after I posted on Violence Unsilenced.
I did not know my rapist. I still don't.
I have since developed post-traumatic stress disorder. I am still a sufferer of anxiety and clinical depression, but I would hardly consider myself depressed. It makes sense if you don't think about it.
I'm seventeen. I have not suffered abuse since that day in the summer before freshman year.
I have a boyfriend. I've gone through several in the last few years haha but this one is a keeper. We've been together for a year and a half and he does everything for me. He's 21 and works a full-time job at a car dealership. He would never lay a hand on me and he takes me the way I am.
I am going to college next year, which would be my senior year.
That means I'm completing three years of high school instead of four, and going to college a year early.
I want to major in forensic psychology.
I'm 5'3''.
That's not really relevant to anything, my personality just tends to "seem tall." hahaha
I live, I laugh, I love like it's all I can do.
I am not a victim of abuse.
I am not a victim of rape.
I am a survivor.
I do not let it define me, I do not let it define my actions or the way I treat other people.
I go to the place I was raped at and I laugh in the face of danger I once was presented with.
I pass my father's street and I smile because it's not my street.
I am happy.
I am Jordan.
I am free.
I am in love and always will be.
