But back on the topic, when I was in LIFE it seemed like they would use any means available to break down the child's will. The foster home where they housed me had lots of animals, dogs, cats and horses. For some reason, I was the only person in the house who got bit by fleas. Hundreds of flea bites, I was obviously unusually sensitive to them for some reason. One might think that the program would have moved me to another house, one with no animals. Instead, they kept me in that house for months. I broke out in hives from stress, which they blamed on laundry detergent. They told us not to pop the pimples we all had on our faces from lack of sunlight and they would get huge and painful. They told us that popping pimples could give us brain damage, or kill us. I am not kidding. And of course the four point restraint on the benches and the five point restraint on the floor, both administered by other teens, are notoriously dangerous. One night I refused to write a "moral inventory", nothing to write, same thing happens every day. My punishment was no evening meal, which I accepted a little too easily I guess because my (fully grown adult) oldcomer decided that my shower that night would be ice cold. I refused to take a shower so he just picked me up in my underwear and threw me into the cold shower. That oldcomer was from El Paso, Texas. I think he later helped "Dr." Newton set up "Kids of El Paso". I'm sure he was one of the resident goons there too.
