Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones
Cedu and Cascade are related there was a walk out at Cascad
try another castle:
--- Quote ---I finally started to refuse my phone calls and hoped my parents would trip out.
--- End quote ---
Fuck, that's a pretty good tactic.
Wish I had thought of that.
Loli:
In my experience, the cults loves that because they can further isolate and drive a wedge from you. Then, the sole point of contact is whatever the cult tells them.
try another castle:
--- Quote from: "Loli" ---In my experience, the cults loves that because they can further isolate and drive a wedge from you. Then, the sole point of contact is whatever the cult tells them.
--- End quote ---
What this does, IMO, is not what it causes the cult to do, but rather, what it can cause the parent to do. Why can't I talk to my kid? Why won't he talk to me?
No answer a cult can give them is really going to suffice, if they are truly worth their salt as a parent. I know my mom would have flipped the fuck out no matter what the school told her. She had no idea I was unhappy, hell I didnt even admit it to myself. I would have gone into a crisis. She said to me years later that if she had known, she would have pulled me in a second.
A lot of WWASPS parents, however, don't seem to clue in to this after they are denied extensive access to their kids, so you definitely seem to be right concerning that.
Loli:
I just remember being at CEDU with kids who refused to talk to their folks, and staff telling the parents that it was "therapeutic." The parents brought it hook, line and sinker.
Personally, I think some of the rich overly entitled parenst looked at it as a get out of jail for free card. Happy to let the kid call you after being throoughly brainwashed.
RMA Survivor:
My parents completely approved of the isolation and limited contact with the outside. Even though my siblings would never have written me or phoned me had they been allowed, when they were told they could not, they were the ones who questioned this, not my parents.
I did come close to cutting off all communications with them shortly after I arrived. In an effort to mend fences, I wrote them an eight page, hand written letter with nothing to say but nice things. It came back five days later, same envelope and stamped Return To Sender. I opened it up and found my letter inside, corrected in red ink. Words properly spelled, proper punctuation, grammatically correct, yet corrections made nonetheless. Clearly this was meant as an insult.
Technically I did cut off communications because I now recall that two months later Bob Silfies had cornered me and asked why I had not written to my parents. When I told him, he said I needed to work through it and to send another letter. When I refused, he said I would be kicked out of Courier du Bois. I said, cool! When that failed as an incentive, he threatened me with a work detail. I said, cool! I prefer to work alone, I get more done. Then he threatened me with a wide range of bans, and that was actually the one punishment that could make life difficult and annoying. So I gave in. Kind of wish I hadn't, but 25 years is a lot of time to reflect.
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