Physical & Emotional Abuse Support Group
Abuse is a general term for the treatment of someone that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) that is unlawful or wrongful. No one deserves abuse, period. Abuse can be emotional, physical, or sexual.
I had to laugh when I got to the part about gesticulation, only because I do it. Some people who were almost in the abuser category made fun of me for it, to deliberately try to detract from what I was saying.
Oh well, next time some smartass interrupts me, laughs, and says, "Why on earth are your hands doing that?" I`ll know to say: "Because I apparently know something you don`t - beat that, sucker!!!" YAY! :D