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DAY 39

Be Tough I told you not to abuse me but you said I have to be tough. How tough you want me to be? Tough enough to hear that you think I’d rather be dead? I am not tough. I can be wounded and from that wound, I learn that I must never say the…

DAY 38

CW: Description of child abuse. You said that the only thing that matters is your anger, That I should not be sad, but you shout so loud that my ears were incapable to decipher your anger into words. You frightened me down to my particles, How dare you said that I should not cry? My…

DAY 37

CW: Description of abuse, child abuse When I hit puberty, warden said that she would only buy a bra if I give her evidence that I do need a bra. This obviously involves being topless in front of her. I did not want to but I had to because otherwise, she would not get me…

DAY 36

CW: Covert incest abuse I got an email for one of my incest abusers. I had flashbacks of how he abused me. I was eight years old when he told me with frustration that he has not had sex in 8 years. I was seven when he told me that his ‘manly’ needs are not…

DAY 35

TW: Sexual abuse, flashbacks, ptsd Maybe people think I am strong, but I won’t describe myself as such. I am scared, not everyday but I can have intense episodes of fear and tension. This morning, I reflected upon why I am tensed when I interact with some women. I notice a pattern. These women look…

DAY 34

CW: Description of sexual abuse. Flashback: Warden used to wear her panties while playing on her ipad all day, everyday. She said that she has so many things in her head so she needs to wind down. Thing is, she wind down all day, everyday. She would lay on her stomach in her bedroom and…

DAY 35

I have been told that I can reach out. I did reach out. I reached out to my father, to my uncle, to my grandmother, to psychologists. But also I am told to reconstruct myself alone. How? Which one do I follow? I have been dealing with a criminal for as long as I can…

DAY 34

There were times in my life where the only thing that bridges me to life was a pair of ears. I had moments in life where I have brought myself to suicide. Child abuse survivors need a support system. Need consistency. This is about repairing an upbringing. It does not take a day, it does…

DAY 33

I am so traumatized. It is very easy for my anxious mind to create some absurd realities. Fear-based reality. My mind is alert all the time, almost anxious all the time. I grind my teeth in my sleep, so much that my partner worried if I would break my teeth and the noise disturbs his…

DAY 32

Had a flashback earlier today. When I was 7, Warden used to ask for my arm to be pinched. She did this when she gets angry. I recalled some moments in the car where she asked my twin sister to give out her arm so that Warden can pinch it. It’s not really ‘asking’. We…

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DAY 1

AN OVERVIEW OF MY PARENTS

ABOUT MY MOTHER: My mother is a schizophrenic. She is the oldest one in three siblings. Like my grandma, she has high cheek bones, luscious dark hair, deep brown eyes, clear skin tone and slim. She used to be a model for a magazine. Despite her learning disabilities and low grades in school, she managed to be a dentist. My mother is the only MD in the big family. She is rather quiet. Very tenacious.

ABOUT MY FATHER: My father is a professor, a researcher. He earned scholarships to complete his doctoral studies in Germany. Unlike my mother, he is extroverted, jovial, musical, artsy. He learned German quickly, adaptive and as a result, he achieved perfect GPA for his PhD. They both are scientists. He had admirers, but the beauty and intelligence of my mother captured his heart. They got married after about a year of dating. He is stubborn, but compassionate. I inherit these traits from him

Shortly after getting married in Indonesia, they lived in Germany while my father complete his PhD. I was in my mother’s belly, sharing the space with my twin sister. We lived in one egg. I am older by three minutes and I shamelessly brag about it.

With the tight schedule of her husband, cultural adaptations and post-partum stress, my mother had no resources and/or sufficient time to take care of us and take care of herself. She gets tired, I do not blame her. There were things she did to us that I cant comprehend. She bathed us in Evian water. I would like to think it is because of her protective nature.

How their Marriage Fell Apart

One night, in a cold winter, my father went home late. He was startled, speechless, disappointed, enraged with what he saw. My mother was on her bed, covered in sheets while he found her twin daughters shaking in cold, lay on the floor, opposite corners of the room. My grandmother, grandfather and aunts came to visit few times to Germany. Me and my twin were 8 months at the time. My aunt did not like smelling our hair. Unlike babies who smell like a combination of powder and baby oil, we smelled like vomit and feces. They thought that it must have been God’s blessing that we lived.

My father sacrificed his opportunity in Post Doctoral research in Germany to bring all of us back to Indonesia. I was two and a half years when I moved to the capital city of Indonesia. This is where majority of my childhood was spent. Me and my twin sister were not able to talk. Not at all. Few months later, we both only say few German words.

My father had to sleep outside the bedroom. My mother occupied the bedroom all for herself. Their belongings were marked by their names. Jugs of water in the fridge, everything in the fridge was labelled. My father slept in the couch outside the bedroom. My mother’s mental health deteriorates. At this point, my sister was in the hands of my grandma while I was living with one of my aunts. We were in different roofs but same city. For months, my father remained hopeful that everything would be better. My mother stopped taking showers, spent days in her bedroom and only go to the kitchen to take foods. At this point, none of my parents were involved in my development.

DAY 39

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Be Tough


I told you not to abuse me but you said I have to be tough. 

How tough you want me to be? Tough enough to hear that you think I'd rather be dead? 

I am not tough. I can be wounded and from that wound, I learn that I must never say the things that you said to me. 

I do not need to be unbreakable. 

Sometimes it is best to be broken. 

Sometimes it is better to know you can be torn into pieces. 

When I am torn apart, I collect my pieces with the vow I made that I would not treat my children the way you treat me. 

DAY 38

CW: Description of child abuse.

You said that the only thing that matters is your anger,

That I should not be sad,

but you shout so loud that my ears were incapable to decipher your anger into words.

You frightened me down to my particles,

How dare you said that I should not cry?

My tears meant to show you how terrified I was,

When words are drawn beneath my fear.

My tears meant to knock your soulless heart,

As soon as my ears were able to hear your words,

What I heard was that you can kill me in one kick.

DAY 37

CW: Description of abuse, child abuse

When I hit puberty, warden said that she would only buy a bra if I give her evidence that I do need a bra. This obviously involves being topless in front of her. I did not want to but I had to because otherwise, she would not get me a bra. She never let me choose which bra fits me most. She always chose them for me and they were always been sports bra. I am not sure why she always lean towards sports bra. She said that I should wear bras so my breasts stay perky. She compared my breasts to my twin sister’s. She made opinions about my breasts and their growth.

She is a pervert who offends a child and that child was me. I had nowhere to go. I was emotionally manipulated to think that she is the best mother on earth. I did not know any better because I had no comparison or idea of what normal parents would do because I have never been allowed to make friends and socialize.

This is the flashback I had since yesterday and it was hard to concentrate on anything. I was depressed yesterday. I can’t believe someone like this still live three blocks away from me. I can’t believe how her sister does not even stand up TO her.

Please. Stand up TO the perpetrator. No parents should abuse their child. Parents should provide security and protection not being the main threat to their mental and physical well-being.

Where did my father go? Why did he not see this? All those years I was abused, he could sleep and not think about me? Spending his days with his daughter and his wife. Dad, how were you able to sleep at night not knowing if I was ok or if I was alive? Why did you leave me when I was 2.5 years old? You did not leave your daughter when she was 2.5 years old. Why? Why did not you do anything when I told you that the warden physically abuse me?

It is not the children’s fault that they are abused. Please stand up with the child. Children don’t lie about who abuse them.

DAY 36

CW: Covert incest abuse

I got an email for one of my incest abusers. I had flashbacks of how he abused me. I was eight years old when he told me with frustration that he has not had sex in 8 years. I was seven when he told me that his ‘manly’ needs are not met. I was nine years old when my other incest abuser, his wife at the time, told me to understand his ‘manly’ needs and forced me to be comfortable to be touched by him after he attempted and succeeded to invade my physical privacy as I changed my clothes. I did not want to talk to him ever since he forced the bathroom door open to see my twin sister showering when none of us had reached puberty. We were too young and his wife enabled him. If anything, his wife was angry that I ignored her husband. His wife touched me too and did not let me change in my own room.

He said a red nail color would look sexy in me. I was eight. He said that if he was a boy my age he would have a crush on me. He said I am prettier and more attractive than all the girls in my primary school. He told me to clean my genitalia very carefully to prevent over pigmentation. Yes, as a kid, I felt sexualized. Yes, I felt obligated to be comfortable around him. I had no one to save me. I had no parents that would take me. I did not know what to do. No one believed me.

I was seven or nine years old when he asked if I ever seen a grown man’s genitalia. Obviously I said I have not. He said, “you have to see it. It looks different than a boy’s genitalia”.

I did not wake up today wishing that I face another flashbacks but here I am facing some this evening. This is depressing.

DAY 35

TW: Sexual abuse, flashbacks, ptsd

Maybe people think I am strong, but I won’t describe myself as such. I am scared, not everyday but I can have intense episodes of fear and tension. This morning, I reflected upon why I am tensed when I interact with some women.

I notice a pattern. These women look like my abuser. Since the pandemic, everything went online. I have my own office, with a diffuser, my favorite playlist and soft LED lights. It’s a pretty little office that I decorated according to my own taste. I spend a lot of time in here. Studying, online volunteering, reflecting, etc.

I like to wear night satin sleep gown in my office, because it is comfortable. My satin night gown is very thin.. I have a sweater in case I feel cold in my office. When I have an episode, like 20 mins ago, I would be crying and cover my skin as much as possible because if I see my skin, I would be reminded of the sexual abuse that I went through.

I am postponing my study session. Until I am okay. I will resume.

DAY 34

CW: Description of sexual abuse.

Flashback: Warden used to wear her panties while playing on her ipad all day, everyday. She said that she has so many things in her head so she needs to wind down. Thing is, she wind down all day, everyday. She would lay on her stomach in her bedroom and she would wear panties in front of me. She would order me what to do while not sending me to school though she had means to do so.

I was not in school, I was doing the chores for the apartment along with my twin sister. She forced me to be comfortable to change my clothes in front of her. She stared at me changing my clothes.

She is still around, facing no legal repercussions

DAY 35

I have been told that I can reach out. I did reach out. I reached out to my father, to my uncle, to my grandmother, to psychologists. But also I am told to reconstruct myself alone. How? Which one do I follow? I have been dealing with a criminal for as long as I can remember and yet no one is reporting her to the police. No one tried to save me from the abuse. The adults around me were to busy with their own affairs. The adults around me, today, are busy trying to defend themselves. They defend something indefensible.

Is it normal for me to expect that an abuser who has committed crimes be prosecuted? If it is normal then why no one is prosecuting her? Why people try to stop me? What did I do? I never ran over a homeless man in my car, I never abused my mother by forcing her to sleep outside. Why people stop me? Why don’t people stop HER? What is wrong with people I talk to?

She abused her ex husband, committing marriage fraud, kicked me out until I almost got raped and somehow I am the one being told to stop? Stop what? Stop speaking up for myself? Stop standing up to what is right? Stop standing up to justice? Justice is not done alone. It takes more than myself. I almost died, I was so near to death because of Warden and somehow I am told to:

  1. Move to another city
  2. Forgive and forget
  3. Look at the positives

And yet this criminal walk around the city as much as she likes. It is sickening me, truly. It’s despicable. I can’t believe my reality. I can’t believe how messed up this is. I am trying to put myself together, hence this blog entry.

People said they care but .. I have never been saved. I got bruises, again and again, I saw my mother being beaten up, again and again. No one did anything. Where was the adults around me? Where did common sense went? Where were the adults when I needed them the most? They were not there.

DAY 34

There were times in my life where the only thing that bridges me to life was a pair of ears. I had moments in life where I have brought myself to suicide. Child abuse survivors need a support system. Need consistency. This is about repairing an upbringing. It does not take a day, it does not take one person, it takes willing, time, a strong support system too.

My journey of re-parenting myself requires outside help too. I do dwell for extrinsic things yes, because I am aware of my own limitations. I can be frustrated with my limitations. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a village to re-parent a child that has been abused. May take more than a village.

Sometimes I feel like people only love me based on the idea that I am not broken. I am injured, physically and mentally from about 2 decades of abuse. None of it is my fault.

DAY 33

I am so traumatized. It is very easy for my anxious mind to create some absurd realities. Fear-based reality. My mind is alert all the time, almost anxious all the time. I grind my teeth in my sleep, so much that my partner worried if I would break my teeth and the noise disturbs his sleep.

I enjoy cognitive therapies. I like identifying my cognitive distortions. One of the most frequent ones is ‘Mind Reading’. I assume those around me think like my Warden. I assume those I deal with think exactly like her. Love is earned and has to be maintained, imperfections can lead to inhumane treatments, etc. The harm Warden caused during my upbringing cannot be underestimated. I am not sure how long this lasts. I am trying my best deal with myself.

DAY 32

Had a flashback earlier today. When I was 7, Warden used to ask for my arm to be pinched. She did this when she gets angry. I recalled some moments in the car where she asked my twin sister to give out her arm so that Warden can pinch it. It’s not really ‘asking’. We never had a choice to not give our arms. So my twin sister gave out her arm to Warden and warden pinched her and that second she burst in tears and screams in pain. I yelled to Warden that what she did is violent and that she is hurting my twin sister. Did she say sorry? No. She yelled at me not to defend my twin sister. She expects me to be calm seeing my twin sister being pinched until she left with bruises.

I tried to sleep off my flashback but I could not make it less intense than what it is. This is why I update my blog. I want the world to understand the impacts of Warden’s abuse to me. I never reported her to the police. Maybe I should, but I have no mental energy to do so. Blog is my best option to date.