1:59pm
I know currently I'm a bit off theme with the whole anti-map thing but it's ALWAYS a good time to bring awareness to the topic.
It took me a years to realize that I was groomed. It took me years to realize my 26 yr old "boyfriend" at 13 wasn't okay. That my 24 year old "boyfriend" at 14 wasn't okay. That my 19 year old "boyfriend" at 12 was NOT OKAY.
Although many years has passed and they were all online, just shows that it can happen anywhere. MAPs can groom you online. They will do anything for control.
My experience with them was that they were mainly looking for "the girl with the broken smile™" shit, constant complimenting, boosting your self esteem-- WHICH WAS ALL GROOMING-- slowly gaining my MINOR confidence.
They'd tell me I was special, they'd tell me that my body was a gem, something to be taken care of, that "someone older" would know how to handle that.
I was 12-15 suffering from on and off again EDs and severe depression. What the fuck.
They would get really clingy and get aggressive when I wouldn't respond immediately. Empty threats that kept me up at night. They'd tell me it was "our little secret" and that "no one would understand this kind of connection that we have" bullshit. With the biggest god complex I have ever seen on people, possibly ever.
MAPs are abusive, they are manipulative. Offending or not. I don't give a crap.
MAPs are NOT a sexuality, NOR are they part of the LGBTQ+ community. They will NEVER be part of it.
And for the ones who get intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts about it, hating yourself for it, hating those thoughts, disgusting you: get help. It can be helped with therapy.
Be safe.
