Caitlyn Caruso Had Her Chance YEARS Ago To Speak About Joe Biden-Here IS What She Said

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22. That isn't something rape survivors can be TAUGHT. Survivors of childhood sexual assault

can't be taught to feel or act the way you think they should feel or act.

It's not that they don't think they have the right to speak up. It's that a rape can have physical and psychological consequences that can last for years. And one of those consequences is FREEZING when their physical boundaries are violated. Not speaking out. Not confronting. Just freezing and waiting for whatever the unwanted contact is to be over with -- just like they did as a child being raped.

This article is about freezing during sexual harassment. I am NOT saying that Biden sexually harassed her. But your demand that she immediately "speak right up" when he was overly familiar with her shows that you don't understand why she reacted the way she did.

Because she was raped as a child, even a contact to her thigh that Biden meant as perfectly innocent wasn't felt that way by her. And so she froze in disbelief. And she didn't scold him or slap his hand away. She just waited for it to stop.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sexual-assault-and-the-brain/201804/freezing-during-sexual-assault-and-harassment

Over millions of years, evolution sculpted a specific defense circuitry pathway which carries out that stop-movement or “behavioral inhibition” component of freezing.

Simultaneously, the defense circuitry also instantly stops any thought processes. Research suggests this happens via rapid chemical and electrical changes in regions underlying verbal and visual thinking.

Those sudden cessations of behavior and thought can be understood as a “network reset" (which is initiated by a brainstem area, the locus coeruleus). That reset prepares the brain to receive new and potentially life-saving information—and generate options for responding to it.