An example of a survivor’s story without the drama… i.e. Kidnappings, torture, brainwashing, starvation, beatings and attacks. You will notice that the author included the ups and downs in his/her point of view, not just the negative points. To me this is refreshing and makes the post very credible. Yet I noticed no one extended a welcome to this poster. Could this be because he failed to say he was kidnapped and abused?
This is a story that I think parents would believe to be credible. The author isnt seeking attention or trying to run down the program and seems to take responsibility for himself and his actions.
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Ok too many wrong points and whole lot of good points...I was in the AEG programs for 4 years almost...Yeah I didn't like them but it served me well...Now I wasn't there for Neil and Mary but I did hear stories from some people about their tyranny, but I do not believe they supported terrorists. Get a day job seriously! But from what I heard sometime ago, a girl had to take insulin shots on a daily basis and apparently Neil gave her Hep-C, because he really needed insulin once. SO she used it not knowing he used it, he didn't tell her and now she has it for the rest of her life. And yeah thats a real shit thing to do, but most the kids there refused to do anything about their behaviors, most kids brandished knives, I saw a kid break a part a plastic knife and swallow it. He also carved a girls initials in his own skin. And most of the kids that went had torn family values anyways. And most of them ran away because their parents were absolute monsters. It wasn't like summer camp I know that. We had kids come from Military Schools and they said those schools were more enjoyable than Cedars. To all you parents, yeah you might have different opinions on how Cedars treated your kids, but I went there from 04 to 06. Most of the staff was yeah very unqualified but they were nice as hell. And when I was there they never restrained people or "touched" them in any bad ways. The only reason why I think this is so, they wouldn't let the boys mingle with the girls, that was the only problem any of us had. I mean we still had ways to go around that but it wasn't all bad. Most kids that I saw come and go, faked being sick, faked breaking limbs, faked being attacked by other people, faked being real and faked being anything worth a damn. Oh yeah the other reason was the tuition was like 50 thousand dollars. If you can afford that then good luck to you, reason being all those kids were so damn spoiled that at the end of the day they just went crazy and went nuts, cuz they couldn't have their laptops, IPODS, or cell phones. I went to another AEG school b4 Cedars for a year and half with no technology, grow the hell up and do your work like the rest of us and stop complaining.
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This is the standard POV of the brainwashed products of behavior modification, and of those who brainwash them. All these kids are seen as spoiled and useless and the schools' job is to "whip them into shape", by any means necessary. A recently brainwashed person thinks they have been saved from certain death or a lifetime of failure, so ANYTHING would have been warranted to bring that about.
Whooter, just so you know in the future, when you quote someone as an example, you are saying what they originally said. So you did say that. If it meant that much to you then you should have left the name on it.
Do you see what I mean?