I look forward to your forthcoming post to the Good Program Experience thread, TSW...its nice to TRY to look on the bright side in the middle of sadness, despair, frustrastion, anger, outrage etc., even though good program experiences were nonexistant for some of us(including myself).
And on another note, I too am very grateful for an outlet to openly discuss the harms the troubled teen industry has and is still causing for many...I agree, Thanks Ginger!
Although, I will add, that I also fear being attacked, especially when I mention anything connected to legal system aspects, for that in itself evokes strong feeelings and controversy, but understandably so.
Funny, this board, for me anyway, I see it as therapy sometimes, an aid to unlocking the fortress around my own program memories. Other times it feels like a war zone that fluctuates between heated debate and nasty mudslinging. But often times, even in the heat of "battle," its very educational. Sometimes I feel the welcome sense of actually belonging somewhere, where I actually have similar life experiences....and other times my legal training evokes a completely different perspective where I fall right back into being an outsider...And then again...this forum may just change the course I take in my legal career...time will tell...but I see discussions and information here influencing decisions I am making now.
So I guess, I am saying, I have many reasons I feel so grateful for an outlet that is, in my opinion, very productive for me and others, and hopefully will beome increasingly instrumental in "spreading awareness," more so than it is now, of the institutional child abuse that rages on unabated, without consequences to the perpetrators....
::rainbow:: [ This Message was edited by: nonconformistlaw on 2005-08-23 08:42 ]