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Offline Anonymous

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I don't really get the anger... you have power to move on
« on: November 19, 2003, 09:51:00 PM »
ok, obviously the Elan experience was a fucked up experience for many MANY people.  I believe MANY of the stories I hear and read. Not all, but most of them. The ones that seem like pure anger from a bad experience... not the ones that seem like 15 year olds that are still angry that  their step mommy sent them to elan for leaving the cap off the toothpaste.

BUT... even some of those TRULY TERRIBLE THINGS... that happened to elan students.....  

It is over. It happened. It was terrible for you and never should have happened... and I feel awful for you ... but seriously... you are an adult. you can waste your life being angry and posting nasty shit about these assholes that ran this place (YES- assholes... I HATED the fucking people who ran that place!) ... or you can get ON with things and be a better person then they EVER WERE!

I got out of there in the mid 80s and had a tough time for a few years... I was pissed at EVERYONE and everything.... then JUST when my life was turning around and I was MAKING something of myself in my early 20s some ASSHOLE tried to kill me and rape me in the middle of the day.... just because his wife and child left him... He saw me and decided I should pay for that.

My life was worse than before I went to elan or while I was there!  It was a horrible thing that he did to me.

Guess what? I lived thru it. I am alive and I can STILL OWN my life.  I do not forgive this asshole for what he did... but he is fucked up - NOT ME!  I made it thru his fucked up world and lived to become a better person.   AND I AIN'T NO FUCKING BIBLE THUMPER EITHER!

My goal here?  My MORAL to the STORY?

ALL these posts of anger and disgusting posts about that bitch Lynda Roy (who was pure fucking evil with her piercing eyes!).. well.... she was married to Tom when I Was there and she isn't a lesbian. Bitch? yes. Lesbian? No. come on. get real. We were there too... she wasn't a lesbian... and she didn't rape any girls.  She was a COMPLETELY CRAZY BITCH, but the rest is just made up of rants from angry people who are unable to vent years of rage and frustration and can't figure out where to point it.

Elan should be shut down. YES!  or sold to some federally regulated program to REALLY be an ACTUAL asset to the youth of america.

I lived the nightmare. I hated it.  I wish I never went there...

but I did and I don't spend my days and nights whining and bitching on the web about it... ONCE is plenty. this one time is plenty.

get over it. Move on... do something positive with your lives.... BE SOMEONE BETTER THAN THEY ARE!

offer the kids today something better than elan.

start with the kids you know in your life.

Get off the computer now.. like I am.... and make a difference with a kid that you care about. your child, niece, nephew... whatever!

STOP BITCHING ABOUT THOSE ASSHOLES AND MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!

I did... and I feel a whole lot better... when I let go of it all ... I finally found ME ... then I got married and had a family.... I let go of the pain and anger and found something better.

I'm probably older than a lot of you too!  I'm in my early 30's
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I don't really get the anger... you have power to move on
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2003, 10:50:00 PM »
Greetings. I tried following your advice for about 20 years after Straight, Inc. Now, I'm damned near 40 and I've realized that was a mistake. Elan is not unique. It's based on the Synanon model and so was Straight.

Check out the forum on the Teen Help Industry right next door. The "treatment" model has spread accross the country. There are hundreds of them with thousands of parents and other recruiters working the street like the religious converts that they are.

They all follow the same MO of recruiting from the wealthier, more influential demographics. That means that they have dedicated converts in entertainment, education, law enforcement, the lgislature, the judiciary (especially juvenile), news media, banking and other areas of influence.

Maybe you're lucky to live in a community that resists change. But the first time they blocked off the beach in Ft. Lauderdale w/ hurricane fencing and stationed cops at intervals to stop and search every 3rd or 5th person seeking access to the Fourth of July celebration, I knew something was up.

Where I come from, parents don't have a choice. We can't just know better than to put our own kids in a synanon based program. If they skip school, smoke pot, get into a fight, refuse medications required by the child study teams or commit any of a number of other agregious crimes, the school resource officer will take them downtown to the juvenile intervention facility (JIF) for evaluation. Once properly tagged and gataloged like that, it doesn't take much before the wealthy ones get shipped off to avoid county facilities while the less wealthy get treated to a watered down version of the Program compliments of the tax payors.

There's a reality based fiction called Coldwater in the works. See http://ColdWaterTheMovie.com/ There's also a documentary on Straight/Kids that should be coming out soon. I hope the Elan documentary will happen.

While we slept, they walked. Now it's time to put a stop to that agenda. People need to know what really goes on behind euphemisms like "Help for troubled teens" and "Emotional growth schools".

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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2003, 01:24:00 AM »
word.  you wrote more there than these her fingers of my own could have typed.  thanks for rockin it.
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