She's told this story 3 or 4 times now. It's getting like a game to her. It makes no sense why she wasn't removed at 17 if she was in so much danger? Oh she was trauma bonded!
With hindsight she's always changing her childhood reality to fit her stories now! She's one sick puppy!
I think the bottom line is something did happen with her brother and her Mum didn't want to believe it and sided with the brother.
And Melissa cannot get past that. It's interesting that her POVs are nearly always about her Mum, not her brother. It's her Mum who lives rent free in her head.
It's her Mum who cut contact and that enrages Melissa as she didn't get her flounce off moment.
Whatever therapy Melissa has had has been a complete waste of time and money as she's a loose cannon.
She's had complete strangers on the internet telling her that they believe her and that gives her the validation she didn't get from her family.
Where it goes wrong for Melissa is that she's chasing the adoration and validation and has got addicted to the warm buzz she gets when she gets a few likes and comments.
And this is where, I believe, her exaggeration and embellishments come in. I think she's either misremembering things or she's deliberately using artistic licence to create content simply for the buzz. And the money of course.
This is just all my opinion of course. I may be wrong. I don't think I am.
What I am certain of is that Melissa is NOT creating content to help people who've been SA.
Nope. I'm not buying that at all.