[Gstar]

Earlier today I was watching videos on youtube of people blogging about close encounters to them being abducted or narrowly escaping something awful happening. There was this one girl who's story really stood out because she talked about having nightmares for no reason until her family told her that she was kidnapped when she was a toddler, luckily they acted fast and she was found not long after. Her nightmares stopped after she was told about what had happened to her.

This made me realise that I am currently having a similar problem but in a different way, I've had two incidents happen to me.

When I was about 15 I went to the supermarket after school and bought a few things, I used the toilet and was washing my hands and this man approached me and asked me where I lived, I said that I lived local and he offered to take me for "a ride in his car". I obviously declined the offer but ever since then I get really uncomfortable if someone offers to give me a lift, like, friends and family yeah but if it's a friend of a friend or someone like that I would never. I'm not even keen on getting in a taxi on my own

There was another time at notting hill carnival (London) when I was about 3 or 4 and it was at night, I was walking with my family and was holding my aunties hand and then (I don't even know how it happened) I wasn't holding her hand anymore and lost everyone, it was really packed and I went to an area with less people and sat on the wall and started crying because I was so shocked. I think I was crying for about 5 minutes and then my family found me because they heard me crying. When I'm in shock I usually go really quiet and not say anything at all, I've never been known to cry and what's scary is that I could have easily just been quiet and not have said anything when I realised I was lost and it would have taken everyone so much longer to find me.