At the end of the novel, charlie realizes that his aunt molested him every saturday night while they watched television. He realizes he’d been repressing memories of aunt helen molesting him, and he starts to understand why his psychiatrist had been probing him so much about his childhood. The perks of being a wallflower includes
Child sexual abuse victims waiting longer for help, report finds
Trueit's been a while but i remember thinking the subtlety and secrecy surrounding the sexual abuse in the book was meant to replicate how victims of sexual abuse often forget and repress memories related to their childhood traumas
I assumed charlie had pushed it away from his consciousness for most of the story and only at the end is mentally strong enough to think of.
The theme describes the cycle of sexual abuse between charlie and his aunt, helen, and narrates charlie's emotional effects from it Some characters in the story have revealed they had been abused in the past, and others were abused on the spot. For the first time in the whole book, charlie remembers aunt helen molesting him as a child In the morning, sam leaves for college, and charlie drives himself home
