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Why ASARian Incorporated? - Its Background The Internet is a place a lot of abuse survivors go to, to escape real life (RL). They find games to
play, places to talk to others in real time, files to
download, and things to read. Many of these
people are victims when they come in from RL,
some become victims while they are in
cyberspace.
These victims (most often of childhood abuse,
rape and harassment) need a place to go. They
need a place to find people like themselves.
Someone to understand, even though that person
may be just a text name on a monitor, in some
faraway RL land. The Internet is one of the safest
places for victims and survivors of abuse to be,
because they can be anything they choose to be.
They can pretend to be something they are not,
or that they wish to be. Most often, they feel they
can't be hurt again, in this virtual world.
What we offer is a place to think about real life.
This is what abuse victims and survivors need. It
is never easy to bury abuse in your mind, to leave
it in the past, so there is no escape. We want to
give people a relatively safe place in which they
can deal with and talk about their abuse, and to
begin to heal.
About one third of the users of ASARian Inc are
classified by their peers, their therapists, and
themselves as suffering from multiple
personalities (MPD/DID), which as a general
definition results from childhood abuse, most
often sexual. A small percentage are battered by
their Significant Others (SO). A few are rape
survivors. The list could go on; there are
innumerable types of abuses know to humankind.
The other group of people who use ASARian Inc
are the Significant Others (SO's) and Other
Concerned Persons (OCP) who wish to help.
Sometimes the people who survive abuse, or who
are suffering in abusive relationships now, need a
friendly voice over the phone and not just some
text on a computer screen. They may not be able
to take the first step to contact a local help line or
shelter, and need a push in that direction by
someone outside of the situation.
As you can see, there is a great need for
ASARian Inc, and other services like this, on the
Internet, where many abuse victims and survivors
congregate. We believe that we can help them,
and we believe we can also pave the way for
other services of this type to begin and even to
flourish.
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