Jayden - what kind of abuse?

Jayden was violently abused. Because of her own situation Grace thought the same thing happened to Jayden.

I thought the shark story came off as sexual abuse more than violent abuse.

It was both physical and sexual. The story with the octopus is blatantly sexual. (The shark wanting someone to "play with" because he was lonely, him taking an arm one at a time and then deciding to go all the way and take the rest).

I'm assuming the physical violence was what followed if she resisted. Jayden seemed like a pretty tough kid, so she'd probably retaliate a little at first.

I've watched it several times, and I'm still not 100 percent sure. The shark story reads as pretty sexual, but you really only get confirmation of the physical abuse from Jayden.

A lot of what we are led to believe of Jayden's abuse comes from Grace. The scene with Jack in the therapist's office clearly has Grace projecting a lot of her emotions on to her story. The "he's always there behind her" tangent seemed pretty clearly from Grace's own life, and she even says she had not thought of her father's abuse in a long time until she met Jayden.

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I know what you mean. I mean, she had both her arms and everything!