Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
How Do Survivors Feel About Their Parents?
Antigen:
Now come on! You mean to tell me that you have ponied up all this dough, agreed to the bizarre and difficlut demands of Program life (including that you dismiss out of hand any one, no matter how credible, who tells you these people might be hurting your kid while they hold him or her incommunicado) and you expected nothing in return? Puh-lease! Were you born yesterday?
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A free people ought...to be armed...
George Washington, 1790
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anon:
[ This Message was edited by: KarenZ on 2003-10-18 12:55 ]
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2003-09-06 19:18:00, KarenZ wrote:
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I couldn't get over his ability to look that far ahead!
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Really? I find that kids that age are pretty nearly obsessed with becoming grown up and mastering every skill and body of knowledge they know of.
I'll tell ya' something serious here and maybe helpful in future. I'm damned glad I have brothers and sisters, even though I don't speak with them. When my mother was ill they asked me if I had any particular preferences about what to do with her, how she could be cared for. I really wasn't kidding when I volunteered to find a 'good' nursing home for her.
I never felt that way about my Dad. Even after 10 years of sort of supporting the program, even after he lied to a cop to try and get me arrested and brough back there, he just wasn't the same as her. He didn't love it. He didn't feed on the power trip. And, after some time had passed, he admitted it had been a mistake and he never, ever again followed program advice or believed those lies about me ever again. He went back to telling me I could and giving me every chance to earn his trust, even when I failed to meet his or my own expectations. He'd quit trying to trip me up and tackle me down for good and all.
When he got ill and eventually died, all six of us kids, regardless of our differences, dropped everything and borrowed extra cash so to go out into those remote WV hills in winter to take care of him or talk him into going to the hospital. And he had been the 'bad' parent, always making a scene cussing, saying outrageous things, putting outrageous bumper stickers on his car, drinking, etc. Mom never figured that out, as far as I know. She just can't understand why. She's such a fucking martyr! The Program was like an extension of her real, down underneath it all personality.
When you see people like that, RUN! Don't ever let those kind into your life ever!
The disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.
Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
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Anonymous:
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When you see people like that, RUN! Don't ever let those kind into your life ever!
I definitly second that emotion!!
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anon:
[ This Message was edited by: KarenZ on 2003-10-18 12:56 ]
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