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The Synanon Connection
Ursus:
This article (The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry, by Maia Szalavitz, August 20, 2007) has been kicking up a real storm on MotherJones. I've posted the responses from the Comments section here:
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?t=22874&start=22
Someone from Elan just now put their two cents in.
The Elan Reporter:
Now theres a giant leap toward honesty. Scart just admitted that he is whacked, He quoted what he and BP wrote and admitted he was whacked. Good for you Scart, now that's a perfect start in the right direction.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---This article (The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry, by Maia Szalavitz, August 20, 2007) has been kicking up a real storm on MotherJones. I've posted the responses from the Comments section here:
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?t=22874&start=22
Someone from Elan just now put their two cents in.
--- End quote ---
HHMmmm... I seem to be discussing this with myself...
Here is the response from someone who identifies themself as a former Elan student. Anyone know this chick? It may not even be her real name... there are no constraints to identifying yourself as you please, when posting to MotherJones.
--- Quote ---I was in Elan in the late 70's and I endeured all the mental and emotional abuse they dished out. I was initially sent to Elan because I continuously ran away from home, a place where I was molested at age 11, by a family friend, and never had any emotional parental support - life was so bad at home, my Parents divorced while I was in Elan. After a year and one week, I was released for a "Family Visit" .. my "Family" was no longer a "Family". My father picked me up from the airport and brought me home to meet his new "Girlfriend" which he ultimately married. I ran away for the "last time" before they could ship me back to ELAN. I have never ever been accepted into that "New Family". I have been ostersized from my family and although I am not perfect ... I know that the emotional and mental abuse I endeured at Elan has effected me long term. I still have very low self esteem and I still find myself in very abusive relationships. I have never known what it is like to truly be loved and supported. I will never forget Elan or the horrifying emotional abuse I went through. I am highly AGAINST these types of "Programs" .. they are nothing more than ABUSIVE!
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hanzomon4:
I'm following your post!!!
I just don't have anything to add, sorry :cry:
Ursus:
What do you mean by "There were no "anti-elan" people during my stay"? I was at Hyde during this same general time period, maybe a bit earlier. "Anti-Hyde" people, such that there were, were all on work-crew and more or less clean-shaved (their heads). Well, the young ladies had it pretty seriously chopped, not quite the quarter-inch stubble some of the guys had. I guess it was supposed to help you re-examine your self-image. Burying your former self-concept was accomplished by digging 6x6x6 ft pits and then refilling them. And sure, the school got a lot of landscaping done for free at the expense of the in-house malcontents.
But the worst was the grilling and focus in seminars and school meetings, when you had the entire school community focused on you and putting their two cents in. If you were shy and not very popular, your character flaws were discussed at length with great cruelty. The blind leading the blind, nobody there had any training in therapy, etc. Lord of the Flies was a most prescient book, in my humble opinion. It described "the Hyde experience" to a tee, probably pretty well describes a lot of these places here on fornits...
We had a chronic masturbator too. Sometimes he couldn't even get to his responsibilities, classwork on time, he was so busy doing his business. Someone found the coat he always wore in the lost and found... the pockets had been removed. Hyde did nothing to address this issue with appropriate therapeutic invention. It was considered a character flaw, and he was punished for it. Again and again.
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