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You’re not alone, I remember doing a few things and looking back thinking wow I was a pervert when I was a kid, but we can’t change the past. Just know you’re a good person and would never hurt anyone sexually or in any other way. If you’re suffering from guilt release yourself from it. Some days the guilt eats me alive and I feel like a bad person but I can’t be crucified for doing inappropriate things as a child, children don’t know any better. I wish I would have had more supervision and that my parents would have sat me down to discuss what was acceptable and not acceptable when it involved my body. But we can’t change the past we can only be good people now.
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Yes, I guess we just all have to remember that we were only kids at the time
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I remember kissing my younger brother as a very little kid and when it popped into my memory later in life I was so disturbed and thought I was a perverted child and then was nervous I disturbed my little brother even though he's never ever brought that up. I'm realizing more and more we were just little kids and kids get curious and also don't fully understand what there doing and were not trying to do these things as kids to cause others pain
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I am 20 too and started to come to my mind something I did when I was 10 or 12 too. ALL my family sleep together in the same Room and me and my older sister sleep on the same ver, what happens its that I disrespected her. She hás forgiven me and we are cool nowadays. But sometimes I have Memories of doing horrible things in that time, that Ive already spoken to my mim and my sister If It happen and nome of them confirmes, but I only feel guilty and regret for that, even tried suicide once
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A few years ago I started remembering all the 'playing doctors and nurses, il show you mine if you show me yours' I did as a kid and became convinced I was a deranged and dangerous pervert.... Its totally normal and common to have those experiences growing up and a normal part of development. I guess the thing is about forgiveness. If you found out you knew 10 year old was being curious about there body and others bodies, would you think they were sick perverts l, or just kids being kids and not knowing any better... Just as you were, forgive yourself, you did nothing wrong, you were just a kid
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Yes you’re completely right
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(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
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- 24w
Getting eaten alive by thoughts right now, when I was a child me and other kids around my age would experiment and do things we shouldn’t have, I’m talking very young, like 3-5 as I got older I was for whatever reason always curious to a horrible extent and it lead me to do in appropriate things to kids around me, I was 7-8 at the time. I would say it happened 3 times in total in my childhood. And i eventually told my parents the last time it happened because even though I didn’t know it at the time. I had ocd. And I knew it was bad. That was when it all started. I feel absolutely disgusted with my 7 year old self and it comes up every once in a while especially when I hear anything about sexual abuse. I’m nearly 20 now and I enjoy my life for the most part and I’ve been down the ocd path before but I feel unforgivable. And I never want to tell anyone about it, but my ocd seems to want that. I have a beautiful girlfriend that had some traumatic things happen to her and I love her with my soul. I don’t ever want that to come up. Because that’s not who I am. When will I be able to forgive myself? If at all I hope I’m not alone.
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I think I know what honestly is what caused my OCD. I’ve never told anyone this but I have to if I want help. When I was either 10 or 11, I think 10 I was at my family’s thanksgiving dinner. Around this time I discovered porn and got addicted. I would watch porn and read erotica. Because of this I guess I wanted to experiment. I feel absolutely horrible just thinking about this but I was playing around with my little cousin, he was around 7 I think and I remember we were playing chase or hide and seek, and I grabbed him and hugged him (something I never done before), and got a boner. I did this for pleasure. That’s all I did that was sexual but I feel so horrible. I try to give myself grace as I was only 10 and didn’t know the consequences of something so disgusting. I keep thinking “what if I went farther and hurt him?”. I talk to him sometimes and he seems comfortable with me and I think he doesn’t even remember this ever happened and just thought I hugged him for some reason all those years ago. I am NOT attracted to him at all but I think this incident and remembering it when I was 14 has caused my OCD such as POCD for all these years. I am 18 now but I feel absolutely horrible. And now it’s even worse because I have been invited to his 15th birthday party in Mexico. I’m traveling all the way to another country just to be near him! Obviously I know I won’t touch him or be innopropriate with him. But what if he has felt uncomfortable with me all this time? He seems fine with me and not uncomfortable around me but still. If I feel as if I go to this trip, I am a horrible person. I don’t know what to do. Am I a horrible person for what I did and continuing to be around him? I remember reading Reddit and Quora stories of similar people who felt horrible and people told them to not feel bad as they were only children and they learned and now know that was wrong and that to not tell anyone as it could only make things extremely awkward.Please help. I know COCSA is a very serious topic that harms people and I feel like a horrible perpetrator now.
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