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# EllesAussi. According to the CVS (Living and Security Framework) survey published by INSEE in 2020, people with disabilities are more often victims of violence than the rest of the population. More exposed, this population is not listened to as much. The freedom of speech, following the #BalanceTonPorc movement (#MeToo worldwide), does not seem to have affected people with disabilities. Neither does the light of the media.
In the CVS survey, 7% of people with disabilities declared physical and / or sexual violence, against 5% of “able-bodied” people between 2011 and 2018. But these figures are trivialized, deplores Isabelle Dumont, project manager at the 'Association Femmes to say it, Women for action (FDFA): “They are trivialized like everything that concerns disability in society.
The issue of violence against women with disabilities is invisible in the same way that women with disabilities are invisible.
Yet it is violence that some suffer from cradle to grave.
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"Identified as easy prey"
Camille * is one of those who have experienced this violence. She was 6 the first time she was touched by her stepfather. She could still see. When she lost her sight three years later, the assaults became more common. Among the predators, the neighbor's son: “He came to my room in the evening. He also attacked other disabled girls, identified as easy prey because we could less defend ourselves. »Later, she was educated in a specialized school in Paris. In this mixed boarding school, a good number of former students tell us that they have been subjected to assaults, or even more, from fellow students and even from adults. Camille is going to suffer the repeated assaults of her principal teacher. But management closes their eyes, she explains.
Another place, same problem: “One day, says Cécilia *, in wellness training, during a Californian massage course, a girl was in a swimsuit, and a friend put his hand in her crotch!
It was stuff like that all the time.
As I yelled a little too much for their liking, a student began to harass me morally.
I took teachers aside to ask them to be a little vigilant.
Apart from a teacher, everyone seemed to find this normal.
The women we met denounce this violence, but also the lack of support, as a stop to their development and their autonomy in society.
“These women can be in what is called acute stress.
»Diane Samana, psychiatrist
This feeling of social insecurity is corroborated by psychiatrist Diane Samama. According to her, such experiences isolate the victim even more from society and cause them to lose their self-confidence: “These women can be subject to what is called a state of acute stress. This can develop into post-traumatic stress disorder. It therefore becomes more chronic, with hypervigilance. That is to say, people will always be a bit on the alert and on the alert for danger. There can also be avoidance behaviors: such as women who refrain from being around men when the assault has been committed by a man, people who avoid leaving their homes. "However," to leave your home, to ask for help from strangers, men or women, to acquire autonomy,are part of the socialization of a person with a disability, ”recalls Sabine *, visually impaired and victim of sexual violence.
Little used social networks
According to the information we have been able to collect, no awareness-raising campaign on sexual violence has taken place in schools and specialized training centers. A difference in treatment compared to ordinary establishments, where these interventions are developed. For Isabelle Dumont, the first obstacle to #MeTooHandicap comes from this lack of education and consideration: “We first see a disability before seeing a person, good or bad. The second obstacle comes from the fact that, for a large part of women with disabilities, the use of social networks is not a habit. In March, we launched a #IncesteHandicap on social networks. It absolutely did not take. Disability does not interest the media outside of Disability Employment Week. All this explains why there is not,and that there probably won't be a #MeTooHandicap. »Twelve million people suffer from a disability in France, or 18% of the population.
* Only the first name is used, for reasons of anonymity.
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To support victims with disabilities, but also potential witnesses, helpers or professionals who would like to get information or know the procedure to follow, the FDFA association has set up an information site ecoute-violencesfemmes-handicapees.fr and a listening number 01 40 47 06 06.
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