yes, you were certainly lied to about a shreddie. I never saw anyone starved in this manner. also, he couldn't have gotten one with frosting on one side because we were not allowed to eat any sugar. I suspect he made the whole thing up to make kids sound alot worse than aarc.
typical day. cereal at host home with a squeeze of honey on it. remember, no sugar allowed. hot lunch at the building. usually like baked chicken, rice, peas, a peice of fruit, and two peices of bread. also a glass of water. but I learned not to drink to much water because I might not get to go to the bathroom till I got baack to the host home. Maybe eleven or midnight. dinner consisted of a dry meat sandwich with one package of mustard, and one of ketchup, a cup of cooked peas, and a peice of fruit. God I hate liverwurst.
the host parents were to provide a snack on the way home, traditionally a bagel.
wednesdays, we got out early, and sundays we went in late. these were traditional total pig out sessions, unless you had an ass for a oldcomer.
I was always hungry when I was in kids, but I do no believe it was because I was underfed. I've always thought that it was because I did not have any control over the matter. I actually eat less now than I ever did in kids
Honestly, most host home we got fed pretty good.
He should've told you about the sleep deprivation , the isolation, the removal of identity, and the whole coercive nature of kids. that is what was abusive about. but thats just what aarc does, doesn't it?
there were 150 kids in group. there was alot of restraints and various other physical abuse. I actually liked being restrained because you got to lie down instead of sitting ramrod on a plastic chair for fifteen hours a day. I didn't mind being taken to the intake room and roughed up by five other phasers and staff, again because it got me out of group.
what I did mind was the coercive behavioral modification procedures. that is what I have nightmares about eighteen years later. I don't have nightmares aabout physical abuse, not once.
It seems clear to me that deano certainly retained the most horrific aspects of kids, but got rid of the more obvious ones to outsiders. how sweet