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dirtysoap:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=dirtysoap69

an.irish.kitten:
Edited out by OP :shamrock:

dirtysoap:
hey there. yeah I agree I just felt that I wanted to put something up there as soon as I saw their videos. Yes it looks slapped together but I felt the need to have something there to make somebody question elan if they were potentially going to send their kid there.

java.gurl:
Interesting?......

I've yet to read the blog. Anyone that remembers me from Elan KNOWS without a doubt I was the MOST "abused" chick there. I came THIS close to breaking in a hardcore way a few times (suicide) BUT I held on. I knew I would be out of there sooner THAN later, Ct. could NOT hold me there FOREVER AND my dad was getting suspicious about the joint and my letters that had pages missing and the cryptic phone call about putting me in the ring for undisclosed reasons and Tania told my dad "I just need you to say yes, say yes" He said "NO". She went on and on and on and on to the house and her coordinators about getting me in the ring and teaching me a lesson in the ring and getting so and so to kick my ass in the ring and she sold fucking tickets to my ring and guess what? There was no ring for me. My dad said "NO". He said "What did she do? Why did she do it? What led up to it? What did they do to her to make her act in such a way? Can I come and see her and this ring? I want to talk to her first, Etc.." Tania refused and he in turn refused her request of him.

Listen, that place was all about the abuse and mental intimidation. People stick up for Elan. They say Elan did NOT abuse kids and the kids that say this are liars and pathetic and need to get over themselves and grow up and move on. Some say "Tomatoe" some say "Tomahtoe".....

I say that telling a girl that just found out her friend died that she "will never be 1/2 the person her dead friend was and that she was a loser and it should of been her" is not justified nor deserved. Here you are in charge of young kids life's and you say this to them?
Tania spoke out of a bitter place. She would take on pet projects and when they failed her she took it mucho personally and that person was in the dog house with her till they left. Rarely would they get in her good graces again. it took much ass licking to do it.

Maybe the place had a good thing planned but when they incorporated all of the "Fuck you's" and "Knock on this door" and signs saying "I am a baby" or my fave was this one girls that said "Please ask me why I am a receptacle for men's sperm.........". The girl wearing it was all of 15 or 16. I'll NEVER forget that sign or her humiliation wearing it. I talked to her about it and told her I was so sorry she had to wear it and I thought it was fucked up. I even said something to that effect when she brought it to the house. I said "Isn't that a little crude and harsh" and Marc got all huffy and red faced. I was "I see your thought for it but it seems cruel and counterproductive" needless to say I got a t/t after the house went to bed.  

Some of the shit was geared towards older, drug addicts. People who had seen/lived the ugliness life as a junkie or coke head had to offer. Some of us had seen ugliness in the kids shelters or foster homes or were abused but we were far from street savvy junkies and crack heads at that point. I say there was maybe 1 or 2 genuine substance abusers when I was there. I was there a long time too.  One kid had a shot liver and was like 17 maybe 16. I hope he is OK today. We saw ugliness but we were kids. We were still growing in all ways. Our minds were not done forming yet. We should not of been put in the same therapeutic category as the older, drug addicted, hardened criminals Daytop was caring for.

A lot of us needed Ritalin not GM's. For crying out loud there were some truly tapped kids there. Their mental states were bad and they were left to rot and called horrendous names and treated awful all because they could not control their mental illness. It was not a ploy or act or image it was a bonafide issue and they taught us kids to attack one another like rabid pit bulls after 1 piece of raw beef! It was sad and scary and I felt like I was under the gun. I felt like I was on some look goods' radar 24/7. I was sarcastic and a smart ass and I was primo fresh meat for these kids that wanted to look good and move up in the dichotomy. I was pissed at life for putting me in this spot (whether it was right or not) I thought life was giving me a raw deal and for me agreeing to go here and I was not shy about letting the world know what I thought and felt no matter the consequences. Shit, I was a kid. I had yet to learn how to control my impulses and use things to better myself and my situation with as little hassle as possible. I was all of 14.
I needed to learn and deal with what made me act out as a kid. And getting called a fucking bitch was not my therapy. Sadly I got to waste all that time and deal with life when I got out of Elan. Now I had MORE on my plate and I was 17.

Good luck with your lawsuit. I say "GO for it!" but I hold little faith you will actually shut the joint down. Unless there is proof of actual sexual and physical abuse, starvation (not just bad food), slave labor, keeping us from sleep for days on end, depriving us of basic needs, then there is no merit in most people eyes for shutting a place down. I am on your side 110% and I am also sadly realistic.

I'd LOOOOOVVEEE to have my say as a adult on a even playing ground with people like Tania and Hiram and Marty and Marc and Pete Rowe but I wonder if that will ever happen.
Oh well....It's always nice to dream huh??

dirtysoap:
thanks for your message. i hope you can one day feel the satisfaction of knowing that there is one less place around to waste and abuse the minds of adolescents. I'll keep you posted.

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