I'm an adult who posted things on the internet, and people found them. I talked about my job and using their internet which could get me fired. These are my mistakes, and I can live with them, even if posterX tries to get me fired. I'm a big boy, and I will live with the consequences of being naive and trusting.
If I was trying to convince parents about the lack of credibility, and danger of coming here for advice, I'm sure the recent case of a 15 year old girl's family being stalked, hacked and publicly humiliated would be a much better argument for me to make. But that's not my agenda, despite the constant guessing and theorizing about why I post here. I am just here to share my experiences, and my opinions and things I think about sometimes. I went to treatment programs, one of which has its own forum here, and I earned my right to my opinions. This forum claims to be an open free for all, I accept that. It appears many other posters do not. I suggest you take it up with the admins and beg them for your "safe place" and they might pity you enough to create your own little forum on the bottom, that gets a couple posts per year.
If my agenda was to convince parents not to post here, it really wouldn't be that difficult. But don't you think I might choose a more suitable screen name, to retain some credibility for myself? If my goal was to lie and to portray a person who loves all programs that ever existed, and sell a specific program, is this how I would really go about it? Don't you think I might post links to programs in my signature, and collect my referral fee? Better yet, don't you think I would mention the name of the program I went to? The answer to these questions does not fit in with the current conspiracy theory, so they aren't asked. People refuse to accept the simple truth that I am somebody who went through a program on this forum (no I don't call myself "survivor" ) and I have opinions that, gasp, differ from the acceptable cult speak that is rehashed again and again here by the same small group of extremists.
Think about it, how many kids have gone through various treatment programs? All the different types of programs, you know that you all love to paint with the broad brush of abuse and injustice. Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Fornits is probably the biggest forum that exists related to the TTI, and as people have explained, this is where the extreme anti program people like to hang out. How many of you are there? 5? 10? 15? Now divide that number by the number of kids you think went through programs. What does that equal out to? Probably close to 0.0000001% or thereabouts. You represent a extremely slim minority, who are vocal and militant about their views. Whooter's position, my views, they are very mainstream and typical. But remaining in the group think and echo chamber that fornits is, people start to assume that reality is represented here, when in fact this place is a den of angry extremists. In the political spectrum, you are the equivalent of white supremacists, the black panthers, and other political extremists groups that represent a tiny population but are militant and aggressive in their views/actions. Those people believe they are right just as much as you do. Time to look in the mirror fornits, you might not like what you see.
