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son in WWASP program
Anonymous:
More interesting reading.
Midwest Academy
Anonymous:
--- Quote --- i pulled him aside on both of these visits, w/o his mother around and told him to lay it all on me..now he HATES being there but does admit it gave him a different view of choices and life in general..he also had alot to say about how the PROGRAM is so gay,etc. as for the staff, there are some he doesn't care for at all, and others he has a great deal of respect for.
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My father asked me similar questions, he knew something didn't smell right about the program, and asked me for 'the truth' when I got home. I was so scared about being locked up again I told him what I knew he wanted to hear. The only thing these camps teach you is to be a world-class faker at all things. Eventually, the act becomes second nature. It doesn't disentegrate until you are out of the program, whether it be a week or two years later. But it always happens. I am glad you are open to at least hear the people out here.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-14 09:49:00, Anonymous wrote:
My father asked me similar questions, he knew something didn't smell right about the program, and asked me for 'the truth' when I got home. I was so scared about being locked up again I told him what I knew he wanted to hear. The only thing these camps teach you is to be a world-class faker at all things. Eventually, the act becomes second nature. It doesn't disentegrate until you are out of the program, whether it be a week or two years later. But it always happens. I am glad you are open to at least hear the people out here."
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Amen! :nworthy: Our program used to call it "internalizing your program". What it really meant was "sufficiently washed".
MightyAardvark:
I think what you mean when you say "my son is doing well" is "I am pleased with the service I have bought, my son is now compliant"
emaree:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-14 09:49:00, Anonymous wrote:
--- Quote ---"My father asked me similar questions, he knew something didn't smell right about the program, and asked me for 'the truth' when I got home. I was so scared about being locked up again I told him what I knew he wanted to hear. The only thing these camps teach you is to be a world-class faker at all things. Eventually, the act becomes second nature. It doesn't disentegrate until you are out of the program, whether it be a week or two years later. But it always happens. I am glad you are open to at least hear the people out here."
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I totally agree. I remember telling my friends how it was so hard to seperate from the program and to forget it, because I had seriously formed a different life there, a completely different personality, a different scale of right and wrong...you're forced to assume this facade to survive, and you will do anything to get home. Any crack in that facade probably resulted in a drop, so it further cements into the real you. It overpowers your real self and slowly suffocates it. Even when you're free, the "program you" is still there, and it takes a long time to totally rid yourself of it.
My parents didn't find out how I really felt about the program until just recently, and I graduated in December of '04. For the first months I was home they had no idea how much I had hated it. Then I gradually started to denounce it, but I was still somewhat brainwashed. I would say "Oh, well the seminars were okay, they helped me" and "I learned a lot about myself" and "I made really good friends"...but in reality I was disillusioning myself, I was saying exactly what everyone else had said, what I was programmed to say...it's ironic (and sensible) that the most cultic part of the program is what I held onto for so long. Up until a few weeks ago I still belived that the seminars helped me...now I realize they just furthered my inability to let go of "program me". Everything is an act there, I even lied about things that happened to me in my past so I could stop being humiliated and dug into. I would grasp things out of the air, say I did more drugs than I really had, say I was raped, anything to get them off my back. Because if you don't have something juicy for them, they will grind away at you until you break. Everything is so fake...
The only question I have, is the student you're talking to still living with his/her parents, or under their "control"? Because that will definately change things. When I got home and other parents would ask me for advice, most of it was complete bullshit because I was too scared to say the truth, and the lies flowed out of my mouth like water. Soooo easy, I learned so well to fake emotions.
Also, keep in mind: I was not abused sexually or physically. I always had enough food to eat, I was never sent to the hobbit (or OP), I was on upper levels most of my stay, I liked a lot of my staff, I made tons of friends, and I was given a lot of privileges being 18/19. Yet I was still diagnosed with PTSD, I still have a hard time functioning in the real world.
I also commend you for looking at other viewpoints and being open to our advice. I wish my parents had at least done that.
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