How long ago were you put away?

[Anonymous]

How long ago were you put away?

How many years?

[SettleForNothingLess]

i came home may 23rd 2005

[Anonymous]

how old are you? That's not so long ago
how many were you in?

[SettleForNothingLess]

i am 20 now..21 in may.... i was in 4 programs... bleh... SUWS, ASR, PV, and Meridell

[Anonymous]

That's a crazy amount! What does asr stand for?
What was suw like? Where is meridall ,and what was that like.
You don't hear much about suw, though it's huge, and i've never heard of meridall.

If these questions make you feel uncomfortable, just ignore them. Sorry if I'm too invasive. I am associated (was in, and have family in) alot of programs as well, and am nervous to even name them. So you are braver then me. I also went in very, very young(as did my family)- 13. Before that, my family was abusive. It's hard, and i am "stunted", i think. well enough about me,:)

[SettleForNothingLess]

That's a crazy amount! What does asr stand for?
What was suw like? Where is meridall ,and what was that like.
You don't hear much about suw, though it's huge, and i've never heard of meridall.

If these questions make you feel uncomfortable, just ignore them. Sorry if I'm too invasive. I am associated (was in, and have family in) alot of programs as well, and am nervous to even name them. So you are braver then me. I also went in very, very young(as did my family)- 13. Before that, my family was abusive. It's hard, and i am "stunted", i think. well enough about me,:)

ASR is the Academy at Swift River (ASPEN)
SUWS was living in the fuckin woods for 50 something days...
Meridell wasnt bad..
and PV... well we all know about that one

[Anonymous]

What was Asr like?
how did it compare to meridall or pv? Which was the most "confusing"? Were you ever brainwashed?
I read a decription of asr and it seemed "culty"..like the one I was in. There seems to be a divsion among programs. Some are abusive in a traditional sense of beatings by staff. Some are abusive in a truly bizare sense of "brainwashing", abuse by other kids as coerced and controlled by the situation. Kids have been abducted and "made" to systematically abuse their fellows since these cults began to target children specifically for "therapy". The sensation of being abused by your "freinds" and peers, the creation of a totalist atmosphere, i feel, is uncommunicable in terms of horror, and outside the limits of the human imagination.
i was in chemical restraints for a month at a program. But, the horror of that cannot compare to being in cult-program where I was never physicaly restrained.

[try another castle]

Rocky Mountain Academy (CEDU, Idaho) 87-89.

We were one of the culty ones.

ASR has some workshop exercises that are identical to ones from our Imagine propheet. The photograph of you as a child... for example.

Still not clear on the whole story about the migration of the CEDU propheet to the ASR workshop, because the similarities are far too specific to be random or coincidental. I think there are a lot of other people who probably have a lot more info on the relationship between CEDU and Aspen.

[Oz girl]

The link between ASR and Cedu is Rudy Bentz. He went from Hidden lake to ASR to "clean it up" after a kitchen hand blew the whistle to the local paper and kids got pulled. Their "Wilderness" element which i believe is now defunct was based on the fact that most of the parents pulled their kids after this incident and the remaining few were sent off for a walk in the woods. bentz decided when remarketing the place it was a selling point.
Can you imagine this at a regular school. Well we were so bad that all the kids got pulled so we fucked the remaining few off into the woods and it turned out to be the best thing......