Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
About girls discrediting those with negative experiences
Anonymous:
I still don't understand though how someone sharing their positive experience discredits someone with a negative experience. I know there are always exceptions, some girls may have just been outright rude and said that nothing wrong happened at MMS and that if you say it did you're wrong. There are also girls saying that just because someone had an overall good experience it means they are trying to take value away from others experiences. That doesn't make sense to me. It seems like a lot of generalization is going on and it's, you're either on one side or the other and the fact that someone who had a good experience was willing to be supportive of others isn't being taken into account. I agree there are extreme people on both sides, but I don't see the majority of girls who don't feel abused by MMS putting down others.
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2005-05-20 14:54:00, Anonymous wrote:
I still don't understand though how someone sharing their positive experience discredits someone with a negative experience.
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Say you happen to wittness a guy pimp slapping a kid around in the park. People around you are commenting on the brutality of the thing, talking about calling the cops or kicking his ass, what to do to help the kid, etc. You pipe in w/ "Well, I know the guy and he's a great conversationalist. And ya'll must admit he's a snappy dresser."
How do you suppose people would take it?
What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?
--William Simpson
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--- Quote ---On 2005-05-20 06:44:00, Anonymous wrote:
"...I just keep on hearing nagging voices in my head when I try to think about my own pain, and it makes me think that I am wrong for my feelings.
Star"
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it sounds like you were verbally and emotionally abused. i know what you are talking about here. it took a long time for these nagging voices to shut the hell up. they are mostly gone 18 years later. (i was in Straight, not MMS.)
i wish i knew what to suggest other than time.
Anonymous:
Star, I think I know you! Were you at school in Florida for a while? Or are still there?
Anonymous:
Thats quite a bit different. When the line goes between talking to something physical that's a whole nother issue. If anyone had been hit or beat while at the school and someone still defended it that would be horrible, but that just didn't happen. I've seen other girls on this board say that while they had a bad experience they have gotten up from it, and they don't seem offended at all by others saying that MMS helped them. I understand what you're trying to say, but in the real world you can't expect other people to back you up and support you and drop their opinons just to follow yours. I think if people stopped taking things so personally even if they feel they are being personally put down they would be much better off. I've learned if you don't agree with someone and you just never will and it's something you can't look past than just deal with it and move on.
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