Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Seed Discussion Forum

Cleveland, Ohio Seed

<< < (3/6) > >>

pigeon:
Anonymous, How can it be that you and I are the only people on this forum from the Ohio seed.
Might I know you? I was hard to miss, because at the time I was put in the program,(1976) I was their youngest newcomer ever; I was twelve.  Less than a year later another girl came in who was even younger; eleven.  I was her Oldcomer, poor girl, I tried to prove my right seedlingness by making her life a living hell.

Anonymous:
i was in the cleveland seed in 1978.  i was there for a short time and the seed packed up its bags and went back to florida

Anonymous:
I've always wondered what it was like to be in the program when they cut and ran. Were you one of the people who was called that night to be told they were suddenly graduated? Since you said you were there a short time I assume you weren't one of the newcomers they took with them.  What part of the program where you on when it happened?

My story of the seed excedus goes like this.
I had been a graduate for about a year.  I never went into the raps as a grad.  I started dating another graduate. My parents were unhappy with the match.  I think because he was black and I am white(of course they didn't say that)and because I had just started going to this private school were they expected I could make more friends(because there were no druggies there, hah!)and showing up to dances with a black boy from the public school didn't help one get accepted.  They had started making  noises like, we just don't know maybe we should send you back to the seed. So, my then boyfriend went cross town to the Seed to tell a staff member we were dating and hopefully get the big OK.  
No, big ok.  "Absolutely not," they said, "That was the last thing we needed.  We should be coming and helping with newcomers-blah-blah-blah."
That night he called to tell me the news and we cried for hours on the phone.  I cried the rest of the night alone.
The next day the Seed was gone like magic.  So we could go on dating, cause I was sure I would have to be pretty bad for my parents to send me to down to florida for repairs.
Of course we were both damaged by carrying an underlying sense that we were doing something wrong anyway.

Anonymous:
I thought Art was forced to close all but the Fort Lauderdale Seed in 1975.  How did the Cleveland Seed stay open until 1978?

GregFL:
Art to my knowledge was never forced to close any seed location but did so entirely voluntarily. The Ft lauderdale seed ran on until just a couple years ago, but it was nothing like the seed in its heydey, 1973/74.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page