my personal, all-encompassing story to all minors in a not-safe-for-work space: leave, please
i get how stubbornness works and we have naivety to us. we are hard to reach. i can personally affirm all warnings we have heard are serious and real and i am a case study of how damaging this echo-chamber can be. you are being taken advantage of without your knowledge.
i am 19 years old and i started role-playing on Wattpad in 2017 on another account when i was 14. i was a hormonal teenager like many minors i knew were and so i involved myself in not-safe-for-work content, not understanding how damaging it is to make life-changing sexual actions before understanding what those decisions were. i put myself in a community to be hurt and taken advantage of, i was so vulnerable being sexual and teenage desperation led to me getting hurt all whilst i saw nothing wrong with my position: i was in just another community, i thought.
my morals were twisted from me settling in and i began hurting other people. i assumed as long as i followed age of consent that i could do no wrong approaching other individuals online for sex or sexual role-plays and even the latter took some time to get out of. people below adulthood do not understand—and i repeat, do not understand—the impact sexual activity has on a person. you are never more vulnerable than when you are needy, and people can and will use and abuse you for it without you realizing it. i am a victim because i did not and could not realize what i did wrong. i strung others into my state of mind and corrupted them further. i hurt so many people. i was groomed by someone who i met through Wattpad connections.
we desired to brush off warnings as "someone else's trouble" or a falsehood based on the age of consent. age is not just a number, not because of limits but because of safety. i went so personal and in-depth in this story to warn that innocents like me are slowly corrupted by what they do not understand. keep yourself safe.
