I'm surprised that nobody yet has even entertained the idea that a story with unreal elements like this, plus the teller's admission of being high at the time, could more reasonably be explained as a hallucination. Everyone's subjective experience is not necessarily true, especially when mind altering substances are on the table.
That said, OP, I find your attempts to enforce agreement with the bizarre elements of your story by attaching them inextricably to the sexual assault elements to be highly offensive. Nobody deserves to be accused of victim blaming or rape apologia because they don't believe you really saw someone turn into a bat, mostly because those accusations are literally untrue at a foundational level. Victim blaming isn't happening because even in the story you aren't the victim of seeing someone turn into a bat, and you aren't being blamed for the thing that narrative-you is the victim of. And none of this is rape apologia because turning into a bat is not rape.
Stop using charged terminology to try and shame people into silence where they dissent; that's utterly vile.
That said, OP, I find your attempts to enforce agreement with the bizarre elements of your story by attaching them inextricably to the sexual assault elements to be highly offensive. Nobody deserves to be accused of victim blaming or rape apologia because they don't believe you really saw someone turn into a bat, mostly because those accusations are literally untrue at a foundational level. Victim blaming isn't happening because even in the story you aren't the victim of seeing someone turn into a bat, and you aren't being blamed for the thing that narrative-you is the victim of. And none of this is rape apologia because turning into a bat is not rape.
Stop using charged terminology to try and shame people into silence where they dissent; that's utterly vile.
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