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How Elan Saved My Life

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Anonymous:
I agree with you. I forget that we were all very young. Under 18. Some people had been shuffled around so much before Elan that they were happy to finally have a place to set up camp for a while.
Some had family some did not.
My father and I had a very rocky relationship in my early teens BUT he still loved me enough to question Elan's methods. He was powerless to remove me at that point in time. Try he did though. When he told Tanya he was going to either send me a ticket or pick me up to come home to attend my NaNa's funeral Tanya told him I was "suicidal". My dad laughed at her and she threatened to call the courts that placed me in Elan and report him for removing me before my discharge date. I was due to be discharged about 1 month after the funeral BTW. Ain't that some shit?
It was sad to me when I saw the kids who were very lonely latch onto staff members. I remember one girl who stalked one female staff member. She did everything possible in her power to get this persons attention. She was an ok kid when you forgot about her "single white female" type obsession with the staff lady.
People used to really bitch the poor kid out and it was sad to see it. Her loneliness and their attitudes towards a lonely young girl. Out of everyone there this staff member was not 1/2 bad. Maybe a little less than 1/2.
Besides isn't adolescence a time in life when people start picking out role models? Isn't that why people are always bitching out celebrities who keep screwin up?
It is funny how so many things I see here remind me of shit I forgot about for so long.
I guess when the people in Elan are the ONLY "family" one has had in a very long time it is easy to fall into being "brain washed" into defending your family against the enemy.
I was very surprised we were not all lined up looking for the Halle-Bop Comet with our paper cups of Kool-Aid at our sides.
Oh well time to go do some more productive shit before my day starts again in 13 or so more hours.
Your a slave to money then you die.
If you don't have money you don't eat nor do you have a roof over your head. Unless you like the whole soup kitchen/shelter scene.

Anonymous:
Elan sucked!!! I'm glad Joe Ricci is dead! Kate Barry rocked though.  I understand that it is all fun, games and poetry reading now. Fucking lame!!! Those people were abusive, especially that Linda lady & her Coke & Cigarettes, and Claire was and I am sure still is a white trash BITCH!!!!! WE WERE KIDS! They didn't give a shit. I got in trouble because I didn't want to yell at people for being KIDS!
I swear I'm not bitter! Hahahaha!!!

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---As stated: You were defeated by Elan staff. They manipulated your brain and trained you into thinking what they wanted you to become.
Elan really helped you , so you say? Care to explain why you turned to the bottle for so many years? Surely there must be a reason? People just don't wake up one day and say
" Hey you know what?, I think I'm gonna become an alcoholic."
I'd say you are far from being normal. You glamorizie and openly admit about being a gay by posting crap about bj's and nut sacks dangling from a chin, that is far from being normal. I'd say you have some serious issues, and Elan is a huge cause of it. Elan made you into an alcoholic asshole, bar none. You say you are over it? Then why ion the hell do you continue to lurk at this forum? That's right, lurk. You are obsessed with this particular forum. You come here day in and day out and for what? You attended Elan in 81 right? I was there 6-7 years after you. I saw rings, non-stop verbal abuse, people wearing mops around their neck for punishment, people having their shoe laces and pants taken away because it was a privelege to have them. People wearing multiple signs around their neck, knocking on doors 10 times a day. scrubbing bathrooms with a brush, even know they were clean, what possibly is lite about that? What in 81 did they beat you with a broom stick or something? I witnessed the same shit you did too asshole, big fuckin deal. I also seen Joe R in action in General meetings close to 10 times, and yes he was a nasty, short tempered man. I even seen corner people tied in restraints at night so they wouldn't spilt on their S.P's. Nothing lite about my stay compared to what Elan is today. I was the smart one, and was saved by my Birthday and excercised my right to sign out of that hell hole. What are you proud or something because you stayed the entire 18 months?
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Are you kidding me?  Strange as it may seem,alot of things said about AA here are true.there are prob 100's of reasons i turned to a bottle.Elan may have even been one.
But I havent had a drink in over 10 years.One thing ive learned is that over time I have healed tremendously. AA was a huge factor in it. But AA has become something that i find counter-productive in my life. There are very few meetings i want to attend. The real AA is in these dingy places where the real deal is about not drinking. Not all this fanatasizm that is found in most other groups.
I dont see the whole proud of being at Elan thing,though i will tell you,as will many of the residents from Elan 6,that I was a fair,good man,with compassion.I still get a x-mas card from one of them every year since. Well over 25 yrs.Some have come to Chicago and other places I have lived to see me....This I am proud of.
I hope this answers your questions
If you have any more,just call me,its not like i dont recognize your style of writing after all this time
 
Oh and the posts about the sexual stuff ?
Just something that makes me smile after i read all of your sick shit that you post.Its funny to read the threads and threads of crap that you post following any type of homosexual inuendo.
In fact it may be for effect and entertainment (yes I am kinda twisted too)  For you,it shows the world what you are.Who cares who ! :rofl:

Anonymous:
For cryin out loud people. Elan sucked no matter who you were or what part of the dichotomy you were in.
How much shit did we see and could not say jack about it for fear of punishment.
People knew what went down was not right but it would be them against the "system" if they were to stick up for someone being treated a little to rough.
One time I stood up in a GM and said something to the extent of "this is all bullshit. She does not deserve to be up there. Why don't you punish the jerks that provoked her knowing she had anger control issues" I got booked AND got demoted to ramrod of kitchen from expeditor. Jerks yelled at me in group too.
They were strength so the staff put their precious kids on a pedestal and claimed they could do no wrong.
Without others to back up your story you may as well sit the f*ck down and try to remain under the radar.

Anonymous:
I agree 100%[/color]

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