Miranda

I always envisioned myself submitting, mostly just because I never got to talk about it in my own way.

I never got to make a post on Facebook about it because I was in the middle of the lawsuit.

So many other people had so many opinions about this, and I had to keep all of mine secret.

to myself.

One of the things that I really focused on in therapy that helped me a lot is that silence is the opposite of shame and shame is something that I struggled with a lot in all of this.

I find that every time that I tell this story and am able to talk about it, the lighter I feel and the more it feels like I am able to really overcome and feel healed.

last time on Something Was Wrong.

I call my theater ed advisor.

She gets back to me and she tells me that this is something I need to bring to Title IX.

And that's when I got introduced to UCO's Title IX office.

She told me that regarding my allegations, that his initial response was that, quote, I can't say she's lying.

So you'd think, oh, closed case, right?

No.

It wasn't until winter break when I didn't see him for three weeks.

I was really, for the first time that whole semester, given the time to reflect on the implications of her Title IX against him and what that meant for me.

Towards the end of my second semester of junior year and between Scotland, our contact slowly dwindled.

Here's Miranda.

When I went into my senior year, I was so exhausted from hiding this secret, especially from all of my peers.

I was just really uninterested in everything that was going on.

I didn't really have fun at parties.