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📣Leading Conversations About #CSA Through Survivor-Led Training, Campaigning & Support 🌸Sophie Olson: Founder/activist/writer 📖Author of The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale For Adults 🌸(ZunTold) #TheFlyingChildStory #CSASurvivorSky

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Aftab misses the point in this review. Psychiatry and Pharma have constructed and promoted the medical framework that was so misleading to the author and many others and leads to the cascade of pointless and harmful interventions she endured www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-memoir-f...

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Age 9 months - 10 yrs - chronic nosebleeds requiring urgent and frequent cauterisation: “No known cause.” Age 11: onset of severe scoliosis. Within one year the cause of chronic and near-constant pain: “No known cause.” 1/

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This mth marks 1yr since the release of The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale For Adults. Our book launch was hosted by SHaME, & we were joined in London by a panel of speakers, including poet, writer & activist Clare Shaw, GP Jonathon Tomlinson & SHaME’s Director, historian Dr Ruth Beecher 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is a very important point. I wish I’d known that poor responses to disclosure were very common - and equally, not my fault for speaking up. #CSA

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I was at Making Survivors Visible In Education conference, delivering survivor-centred workshops into systemic barriers that stand in the way of meaningful support. I also got interviewed by the BBC, who worked very respectfully, considering I can’t be visible #CSA ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B34...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re a survivor of CSA, what do you know now that you wish you’d known as a child or young person? #CSA

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

In @thetimes.com article I conclude “It is impossible to say that taking SSRI antidepressants is worthwhile, or even completely safe.” www.thetimes.com/article/f638...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

On day 6 of #ItsNotOk: Be mindful of using the term ‘trauma p**n’ or ‘trauma dumping’ to describe the stories survivors of CSA are disclosing - some after decades of silence. It’s shaming, and demoralising. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

#ITSNOTOK that 90% of sexually abused CHILDREN are abused by someone they know, and yet the focus is rarely on abuse closer to home. #CSA

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This week (3rd-9th February) is Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week is the UK’s national week to raise awareness of sexual abuse and violence and to provide an opportunity for any organisation or individual to engage in dialogue. 1/

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It’s an honour to be keynote speaker at NSPCC Partnerships & Development day. I’ll explore how we can better understand the individual needs of survivors when lived & living experience is placed at the very centre of development, delivery & decision making. #TheFlyingChildStory @nspcc.bsky.social

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Delighted this prolific child sex abuser (teacher), who abused my friend has been convicted. It's been an incredibly hard year. But, I am appalled at the reporting by the Sentinel 'He has done a lot of good in the community...lost his home' Cry me a river! www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

metro.co.uk/2025/01/25/b... Pleased to contribute to this. The economic consequences of surviving CSA are hard to quantify as each survivor is different, but in my case surviving becaming more expensive as time went on, for me and for the state -exacerbated by continued poor systems responses. #CSA

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My ❤️ heartfelt thanks to each person who’s borne witness to disclosure of #CSA #VAWG & in my experience of conversion violence. I can’t overstate the significance of bearing testimony of your experience to someone who listens. I’ll be thinking/writing about this in the postdoc… (if application is ✅)

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Just as we never forget those who turned away, failed to listen, disbelieved, or changed the way they treated us, we never forget those who listened, gave us enough time, and made us feel it was safe, in every sense of the word, to disclose child sexual abuse. #CSA

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

“How we live our lives following child sexual abuse is not a competition of strength or a perceived battle of wills between me and the man who abused me. I am not victorious, I was a victim of a crime.“ #CSA theflyingchild.com/2022/01/28/w...

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

jotheaccidentalactivist.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/g... A powerful, visceral blog - relevant to those working in professions who have the opportunity to help, or not. “When we leave victims of trauma to cope alone, and when we add so many issues to their daily lives, the risk of harm is limitless”

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

When will #CSA ever stop? When will a child ever be truly safe? When will the people in charge realise that they are failing our childen?

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Our human needs are quite basic really. To be heard, seen, for someone to give us their full attention for a while. To care enough to act. To protect. I’m a lover of words, but not when they’re used to deflect, which is what we’re seeing. Too much talk. Too little action. And #CSA continues.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I'll be posting a bit more in the next few days, but in the meantime, strength and solidarity to victims and survivors who might be feeling rather lost in the noise of it all. You are not alone. As a survivor of CSA, I'm sick and tired of empty words, and of feeling drawn into this toxicity. #CSA

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

How society silences adult victims of child sexual abuse sweptunderthecarpet.com/2022/12/15/h...

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Trauma hasn't made me stronger. A big part of my ability to regulate my emotions is frozen in childhood. It's something I have to learn to practice over and over again, because I lost my formative years. #csa #abuse #recovery

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment