Liliana

My name is Liliana, and today I'm going to be talking about my intrafamilial child torture and how my parents isolated, tortured, and sexually abused me until I was mute as a child, agoraphobic as a teenager, and a young adult.

And I just want to talk about what occurred, how it affected me as I grew up, and my experience pursuing legal justice against my abuser.

So first, I would like to say, to answer the question of why I'm here and why I'm doing this, first and foremost, I feel it's important because if I was a child and I had seen somebody talking about this kind of experience, it probably would have changed the trajectory of my life.

So I think if there's somebody out there going through something similar, I could provide some kind of

You know, my experience with it.

And also, too, I would like to kind of give advice on what it's like to uphold boundaries and stuff.

Like after you go through something like this, advocating for yourself can be kind of difficult.

And it's something I personally struggled with and still struggle with.

So I could also give advice on that.

And just generally like therapy, the world of psychology, I'm really familiar with.

Also, I personally, I've never really had issues talking about this stuff.

And I've been fortunate enough that Miss Dev here has been so kind as to share her bigger microphone with me, this bigger platform, so I can reach more people.

And of course, there are selfish reasons too.

You know, I do wish that I could get on a microphone big enough to share this with the whole world.

And in a way, I feel like a lot of, especially the sexual abuse, like my mother wasn't aware of it.

So I feel like in a way, maybe this will fill the hole of if somebody just knew what happened.

But, you know, so there is a bit of selfishness over here, I will admit, because I do want to be transparent.

And there are going to be a lot of times in this story where I'm not the victim.

If you're looking for a perfect victim in this story, it's not going to happen.

So, and I also do just want to provide information