effects of child abuse

 I was watching Tyler Perry on the Oprah Winfrey television show os n October 20, 2010, and he spoke with Oprah about a conversation that closely touches my soul. Tyler Perry is multi-talented, a forty-one year old black man who happens to be a producer, a director, a writer and an actor, with multi-television series and movies. Still even though he is rich and famous, Tyler Perry still bears scars on his soul from his horrific childhood. Tyler Perry was a victim of child abuse, both physically and verbally from the hands of his father, and also suffered acts of sexual molestation from a man and woman. Tyler's story initiated flashbacks of my past, because we share a somewhat similar story, except I'm not famous on the wide screen.
Tyler Perry used his inner survivor skills to cope as an abused child by being creative, turning into his inner happy child persona. Tyler Perry said males don't speak up about incidents of child and sexual abuse as often as females. There's too much shame in making a confession. Sexual and child abuse does occur in the male population, and with young male teenagers. Tyler Perry had to work on repairing the emotional damage inflicted on him as a child. I started using my gift for words as a young child, writing and creating verbal imagery of perfect families and perfect love to block out the cruel reality in my life... continue reading with the cite below

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Abuse can leave a big effect on any individual. It can lead to horrible flash backs and emotional stress. I believe when someone is abused as a child it sticks to them for the rest of there lives. Its not something that could be changed, they will always live with the abuse. The abuse that Tyler Perry recieved was neglect, physical, and sexual. He explains that it is hard to talk about because he is a male. Most of the abuse was from his parents. He faces a lot of emotional damage.