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Could this be happening to me?

An attendant would stand close to my arm that often goes into spasm – I can’t control that arm because I have cerebral palsy – it moves up and down. The man would be helping me to eat. He made sure that my arm was moving against him and he was getting an erection. The more I tried not to move - the more I moved my arm against him.

This went on for about 4 years.

Even though I knew what was going on, I had no one to talk to about it. There was no one to help me deal with this. I started to doubt myself. Maybe they would say “I don’t believe you” or “You are imaging things”.

 

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