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serious xm triumph 111. Andrew, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dr. Laura, I appreciate it.

Thank you.

So I had a question today, you know, when I was five years old, I had a traumatic experience where my uncle tried to touch me.

I'm sorry, what was traumatic about him trying to touch you what did you mean by that?

Yeah like so there was actual physical contact and so I pushed him away and so you know there was you know a little bit of trauma there as a kid I

never did tell anybody just because I felt dirty you know I got into college and

and went to a counselor and talked to a counselor about everything.

So that just feeling dirty as a person and like I don't know why it was you know as I talked through with a counselor back then you know she

reassured me that you know you're the victim like this is something that you didn't

choose but fast forward worked through everything never didn't mention

anything to my parents or anyone in just as an adult looking back how do you

think you thought you were dirty when at a handful of years old

you had the notion and the physical effort to stop it and push it away.

How does that make you dirty? I'm confused. I'm just not understanding how your brain put that together.

Yeah, it was just more so like not being feeling I can trust anyone to tell that too.

I think it's more so probably where my mind was and I don't know why as a kid that I felt that way to be

honest you know looking back there was no reason for me to feel dirty.

Well, I was just wondering how you got the concept of dirty when you were assertive to make sure it didn't happen. You even posed it to me that he tried, well you

stopped him even at five. Right. How did you not feel heroic? Right.

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