What can a person do when they have gone through something traumatic and someone tries to manipulate them?

Tell an adult. They will help you sort out what is right and what Is wrong.

Your lack of details will get you shitty answers like I am about to do.

When my mom killed my dad and had turned herself in my sister and I were later questioned in a horrible way.

There was a Detective that came down Springfield Oregon to Ontario California where we lived. We were broke as fuck and living with my aunt that was a caretaker for a elderly lady. This did not pay well.. But we got by living in a attic with a small black and white tv watching Married with Children.

So this chuckelhead spends five days taking us to Denny’s and Disneyland trying to get my sister to get us to turn on my mom and saying the killing of my dad was premeditated. This did not work since it was not true.

But this culminated in massive frustration for Disneyladcopper. His last day he seperated me and my sister for about 8 hours and grilled us. And the bag of shit would say my sister said shit she didn’t say and lie to me.

So fuck the police. And if they did this to a ten and 13 year old….

@johnpowell Wow. Just wow. Ive been interrogated for 2 hours twice for different reasons that I was innocent of any crime. They weren’t sentistive to who they hurt. I was traumatized and they just dropped me off at my dorm room when I should have been hospitalized. I blame the police for making me ill and fllunking out of university. That’s around the time that I started believing that I was travelling through time. Once is for them thinking that I stole a $2 Tim Hortons pie plate and second for Someone sending hate mail on a guest book to an ex friend.

We need more details in order to respond meaningfully.

With the lack of details all I can say is don’t let yourself me manipulated.

Do your own detective work. ID the perp, then write letters or make phone calls to those involved and inform them of this other person, his/her motives, and your lack of motives.
And doing it later is better than not doing it at all, for your sake…

You recognize the manipulation so thwart it. Everyone goes through life’s traumas. And Everyone is responsible for protecting themselves from manipulative people. Now go and do life.