Getting by....

Life is hard being a child abuse survivor.  I found out recently that when my brother, mother and neice came to visit me, my brother dumped battery acid down my landlords tub drain.  He joked about it while he was sitting at my kitchen table, my mother and niece laughed with him.  I am just connecting the dots, a year later.  When I moved out my landlord asked what happened to the drain in his bathtub, it was corroded terribly, with large gaps.  I told him I took salt baths.  He stated that if salt did that to the drain what could it do to my skin.  I'm realizing now what had really happened and am dismayed at my willingness to trust my family enough to let them into my residence.  The acid could have been in my face.  I am a survivor of child abuse that included child prostitution at the hands of my mother and other relatives. No convictions were made. I am not believed.