Yes. There is a psychological being and profile that is created with any victim of crime.
This is seen in all forms of crime where the victim identifies with their attacker and/or what is being done to them. To have sympathy and empathy is inherent in all human nature, and it is more so in victims of crime to identify with their attackers and all the things that went on in Straight, so you are not alone I would imagine. This is not a natural state of being, this creation of schysm in the victim's mind byt the crime done - it is the first step toward healing but it is NOT a phase of healing. The victim (the term victim is a basic definition used in police procedures and law to define any person who was done wrong against or a crime was done to them. Personally I find these posts demeaning toward the True Victims of Straight Inc. saying we are not book defined victims of crime, so fuck you) must come to understand that what was done to them IS CRIME and IS WRONG in every facet of law abiding America we live in.
Shame on you, DragonFly, for not doing your homework about psychological residual effects of crime and child abuse, child abuse especially at the mass pedophilic hands' of Straight.
Yes. Pedophilic. To clarify what I myself mean, my definition of Pedophile: Anyone who gets off, in any form of money, punishment, other; on hurting children. Crimes being commited are not just physical assault where the victim wishes the occurence had never happened.
Back to police definitions of VICTIM: It is imperative that the victim does realize that this is not a proper way of healing by internalizing what was done to them, internalizing some UNREALISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS from their criminal attacker(s) so that the victim becomes introverted/depressed.
True and Right Identification and proper healing only comes when the victim goes through stages of healing not including this psychie action you are referring to.
Feel free to look up anything I am saying here within the guidelines of all police victim brochures, procedures, and books surrounding children in abusive homes and institutions, people who have been raped, or are victims of any and all the types of cases of domestic and criminal violence. This includes kidnapping, forced truancy, illegal seizure of all the civil rights, and you can name the other things that Straight did to you to break the law. It does not matter that it was Straight, you WOULD COMPLETELY have had the same residual empathy and psychological confusion on how to react to the crimes done against you if you were never in Straight Inc. and the crimes done to you there had happened somewhere else. This means that saying you are a true victim is nothing personal against anyone who does wrong to us within the scope of the laws that keep us safe. This means that it is nothing personal if you feel you 'miss' Straight in some psychological way. And, Dragonfly, by continuing not to think of what you are writing before you write it - you are talking down crime and getting on the side of crime. If all you are saying is that you sometimes have psychological confusion, this is perfectly understandable. I don't know who you are but if you started that whole 'CoffeeShop Post', I'm still willing to bust your head open with a crowbar. If you didn't start that mess, then I'm not offering you the metal in your head.
So, if you do feel some sort of psychological common bond with Straight ... now that you KNOW the truth about what you are thinking and feeling there with your misappropriated missing of that sick place, you can begin to turn your mind and emotion in the right direction and realize that nothing that was done to you was your fault in only the realist sense of the terms. Beginning this motion of separating yourself and your sanity necessarily keeps you from projecting onto others and other situations when you begin to identify YOURSELF as the victim of a crime, and not the other way around.
Furthermore, it should be easy for you to now see that Straight IS wrong for what it did, the people who did these things to you, STAFF and DIRECTORS and CREATORS, any person of adult age, are criminals. YOU ARE NOT a criminal for any of that. You are the victim here and they are criminals in the sense of learning to bring about the justice that is supposed to be inherent in our laws that protect us. We would not say it was crime if there was no crime there, that would waste everyones' time if no laws had been written to protect us against things like child abuse, rape, kidnapping, etc.
As you begin to understand this KEY difference of book victim and true criminal you can begin to unwind yourself from the situation. And hey, nothing wrong with ever seeing a counselor to work out some of these tough issues we all gained because of the crimes done at Straight. The real kicker is going to be what to do about your sorry fucking parents who dumped you off at Straight because they lacked the maturity to raise kids.
