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The Troubled Teen Industry / The smoking gun - do survivors lie?
« on: October 13, 2010, 06:01:21 PM »
It has been established throughout the Troubled Teen industry that some of the graduates and non graduates who did not do well have a need to embellish or lie about their time spent at one or more of the programs. I have always been curious as to why just being honest and telling the truth isn’t sufficient enough.
In my opinion this just diminishes the credibility of the information being presented.
If programs are truly abusive and posters here on fornits believe that then why lie? Why not just write that you were abused in a program and explain what happened and by whom? Why make up stories of being kidnapped and held in a prison, placed in isolation in a Gulag and brainwashed? It is really easy to check the credibility of this. I don’t think one amber alert resulted in the capture of a teenager being located at a program nor a link to a report of a child being kidnapped. Yet we read on fornits that this occurs everyday.
So why the lies? Just curious.
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In my opinion this just diminishes the credibility of the information being presented.
If programs are truly abusive and posters here on fornits believe that then why lie? Why not just write that you were abused in a program and explain what happened and by whom? Why make up stories of being kidnapped and held in a prison, placed in isolation in a Gulag and brainwashed? It is really easy to check the credibility of this. I don’t think one amber alert resulted in the capture of a teenager being located at a program nor a link to a report of a child being kidnapped. Yet we read on fornits that this occurs everyday.
So why the lies? Just curious.
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