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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: nuiloa on March 15, 2006, 05:00:00 PM
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Aloha everyone,
I'm not sure if you remember me, but I was planning on writing a book (which I am now doing) about surviving Northwood Children's Home and other places. I'm doing it as a project for my anthropology class, because I needed a deadline or something that would help me face what happened. I needed to write three different sections, and I feel that the third one should be called 'Other Voices'. I don't want it to seem like I'm the only one who lived through it. So I thought I'd ask if anyone would be interested in including their story in my book. So far, I've only sent a query to Inner Ocean Publishing, which is very political and located in Hawai'i (where the only juvenile prison is now under attack for abuse in Honolulu), so I hope they will show some interest in it.
Please write back and let me know. I'm not a con or anything (I've seen suspicions on this board before when someone says they want to write a book), but hopefully those of you who read my previous posts know I'm for real. I know how difficult it is to share these stories with close friends, let alone a total stranger. However, I think it will give more weight to the story, so I don't look like one lone, insane person writing about the horrors of these places. I am particularly interested in people whose experiences were more recent than mine, because I also don't want people to assume that these abuses are long dead in the past.
If you want to know that I'm a writer and I'm not making this up, go to http://www.simply40.com (http://www.simply40.com), under the women's folio, and click on 'no prom dress'. You might have to click through a few articles, but every article aside from the first one is my writing.
I hope to hear from all of you soon. Let's put an end to this.
-nuiloa
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Wow - that's a powerful story you wrote. Keep up the good work - your soul is in your writing.
FYI - it took me awhile to find your article so to make it easier for others, I hope it's okay to post the direct link.
http://simply40.com/noprom_sept05.htm (http://simply40.com/noprom_sept05.htm)
Again, great article nuiloa! Thanks so much for sharing and I hope you will get a good reply to your request for additional voices.
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Thanks. And thanks for posting the direct link; I know that site is a little difficult to get around.
I hope to hear from others who can share their stories, too.
-nuiloa
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Thanks for sharing your story.
And for the link to Internation's Justice Federation. I posted some of their info on Abuse in Community Institutions and Orgs.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... &forum=9&0 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?topic=14488&forum=9&0)
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Please, tell your stories as well. You can email me if you feel more comfortable at thewondrousday@yahoo.com. I would really like input from others who have lived this way. I think it would legitimize the book even more than my own story (particularly after Million Little Pieces just came out).
-nuiloa