was my experience sexual assault or am I overreacting?
When I was around 11, my younger cousin was 8. I have multiple memories ever since we were little where he did some questionable things. I don’t know why, but he’s always been sort of perverted to me and has made weird comments about my body ever since he was little, but it was only ever quick little remarks that would come off to me as strange, and when I told my mom she assured me he was just joking. the furthest I remember it getting was when we were play fighting and he suddenly started groping my chest. I was trying to push him off and was yelling at him while he just laughed. (the memory is hazy but I believe he was holding me down somehow?) I feel ashamed to ask this. We are almost four years apart. I sometimes feel like I should have been able to overpower him. I eventually was able to push him off of me and he started crying when he fell onto the floor. again, my mom asked me what happened, and she told me I was overreacting. was this sexual assault or is my mom right?