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jeff belflower:
Re: duped parents Remember the friday night open meetings with the parents standing up and talking with their kid. Love ya, and start crying and all that crap. Love ya, love ya, i feel like pukin. We stand firm behind the program. Yea right, if you told them the attrocities you would be started over, as a newcomer an oldcomer would be there at all times to listen to the fuckin conversation. The parents had raps that told them to be strong. This was the biggest form of brainwashing in the world. Remember after you sat down from relating, the group would say LOVE YA, I hated that shit. If you didn't conform you would be beat up and sat on and given peanut butter diet. LOVE YA, this was a sick form of entertainment for the sicko Dr. Newton. Love ya Dr. Newton. We were not given the opportunity nor priveledge of letting the parents know the truth, thus, a true cult. oh, better sit up and flap my arms, I'm getting written up by a 5th phaser. Maybe I'll be blasted after open meeting. Oh no, Help me. Love ya, have a seat and fuck you.

This was the jist of my four freakin years in hell.

sullyceltic:
Re: duped parentscouldn't agree more, jeff. our stays, of whatever length, at

whatever program, were thanks in large part to the clever

and tricky manipulative ways of the folks that marketed these

warehouses to the parental public with any kid over twelve who had skipped school even once.


some parents are still brainwashed. people have posted on here a lot saying that their parents still believe that the program was the best thing they ever did for their kid.

my parents are split on the issue.


the rules are what made everything happen. the environment of paranoia is what got things accomplished in there. in both the parent raps and in our group, fear is what held everything together. i have come to believe that all of rules were concieved long ago and experimented with in programs before us - and are being tested even today.


"as I slooshied, i knew such lovely pictures"

-Alexander deLarge

A Clockwork Orange

Antigen:
The Nature of Coercion I forgave my dad for his part in my nightmare just as soon as he quit taking part. Didn't really understand beyond that his intentions were good and he'd made an honest mistake.

Now that I'm the grown up, I understand completely. What do you do when your kid is making serious, life altering mistakes? How do you help someone who doesn't want your help? How do you deal with it when your child is acting asif she doesn't love you any more?


Most people haven't had cause to give as much thought to these questions as we have.


The 'authorities', and by this I mean everyone from the school resource officer or guidance counselor to the psychiatric and treatment pros, will tell you that you MUST take responsibility for your child's welfare. Even if they hate you for it, they'll thank you later. And if you fail to take their advice, they'll act on your behalf and 'help' your child for you. You might even be charged yourself with criminal child neglect. If you have younger children, the professionals might just decide that you're not fit to care for them either.


I don't think they fully apreciate the impact of coercion, loss of autonomy, privacy and dignity. 20 years ago, the only threat held over the parents' heads were the over-stated dangers of drug use or involvement in 'drug culture', the threat of their children landing in prison and the threat of being condemned by their peers as bad parents.

These days, the stakes are much higher. I don't know exactly what these altruistic bullies might have in mind for my family. But I won't ever throw my kids to the wolves to please them. I understand why people do that; you'd do anything to save your kids and it's only natural to defer to the authorities and experts; to trust that they know what's best and are acting on the best intentions. But that's not how bullies think, I know that from firsthand experience. My dad didn't have the benefit of the education I have.

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse

jeff belflower:
straight I have been out of that hated program now for a greatful twenty years. I still have horrifying dreams of being trapped and people yelling at me or being threatened with my family leaving me forever or being sent to a mental hospital. After around ten years of being out of there I wasn't surprised to learn that my parents were still sending them money and still letting parents stay at my parents house for so called emotional support. One day I visited my parents around ten years ago and say a young couple there. I just thought it was a friend of theirs from church or something. After I was there a while I asked my parents who these people were. I was shocked to find out that they were newcomer parents that had just put their kid in the Orlando branch. I was horrified because still after all these years they were supporting that awful place. I long knew that they were sending money to them, because I snuck in my dad's files one night and saw a billion receipt(tax deductable of course), that were given to straight in the behalf of a straight life. Well, when they found out I was the outcast from straight they were all nice to me and were asking me quenstions about the program. Finally, they asked me, so what do you think about straight. I had been awaiting this question because no one beleived me when I told them the horrible things that had been done. I started telling them about how it ruined my life and how terrible the program was. I broke down in tears telling them about this horrible place. Luckily my parents were out of the room, so I was allowed to tell this story without the usual interruption from my parents telling me it was time to leave or to shutup like they normally do being their own rightious selves. I really hope that my story sunk into these new straight parents heads because if it did I perhaps saved a family from the hell that I had to go through. If my parents would have been in the room I know they would have stopped me from telling my story and perhaps more lives would have been ruined. I was glad to return the next day to find they parents were gone and my parents intervention was not taken as good as it would have been. I dread to think of the awful stories my parents told these parents about how awful I was and how straight helped their lives. I know my parents were brainwashed like I was, but I no longer tolerate the awful Dr. Newton and his bullshit.

devaprasthadas:
my mom has seen the light     I was held in the atlanta straight for 8months more and i turned 18 they still would not let me out when i did my parents did not even talk to me so i started hitchhiking with the dead awhile now me and my mom will talk about it;She says she can't belive that she would go to collect money on the side roads.Now she tells me she is very sorry for the both of us and the hole that it put in our familyspending so much time in negative vibrations.One good thing came out of it we do our best not to get into very loud yelling.She feels now that in the long run the mental ruin we both went thru could never be returned.

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