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It's impossible to know for sure that a MAP who experienced CSA, wouldn't have turned out to be a MAP anyway if the SA hadn't happened. I can without a doubt link the two. My MA tendency is so tightly linked the the precise damage from CSA. MA evolved as a coping mechanism to enable me to be sexual...

CSA had a profound and traumatic affect on me and certainly drives my MA.

How about other users?

This a fascinating discussion, remarkable in its civility and sophistication of debate, that I've not encountered before. Society is relentlessly infantilizing pre adults. There's no retreat from this that isn't political suicide. Psychology get shredded if they fund/publish anything that controvert...

(events mentioned are many decades past. There is no likelihood of de-cloaking) extraordinary cognitive abilities, loner, learned to model empathy as an abstract concept. I grew up in an intellectually abusive environment - emotional sensitivity was derided . As a prodigy, I found the most rewarding...