I was sexually abused at 11, but my mum won’t speak about it

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I was sexually abused at 11, but my mum won’t speak about it

Your mother won’t have forgotten the incident, says Mariella Frostrup. She’s probably paralysed by her inability to process what you enduredThe dilemma When I was 11, I was sexually abused over the course of a year. It was the 1980s, we trusted adults and I had private lessons at my teacher’s home. I eventually told my mum and the lessons stopped, but we never discussed it.I blanked it out until something sparked my memory when I was 18 and I br…