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You are calling me a motherfucker? Are you serious? That was are you 15?



Have to go...

I have a crack-head to coerce into putting down his rock-pipe and believing everything I tell him.


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I remember beach therapy and meditation. It was usually the paraprofessionals who did it during exercise rap. I guess it could've been like hypnosis as a part of the brainwashing, makes sense.

Except that I know Mike R##se or Holly Min##ck were not smart enough to accomplish anything like that. (Sorry, that was hateful).


This reminds me of something a little different. Does anyone remember "snag raps"

I was around for so long that I knew when it was coming.

"tell us about a time when you had fun in your past"

The staffer would tell about a time that he got drunk and had sex, or stole a car, or whatever. The one I remember most was a guy's rap. After they tricked about 5 or 6 people to "BS about their past" the wall of fifth phasers would begin. Then everybody would get seriously confronted. This was very scarey, and I was very close to being one of them, but they had bigger fish to fry. Those that "caught" someone reveling in their past seemed to take great joy in the experience, making fishing noises and air-fishing (snagged!).

One time staff members walked out in "imagey" clothing and used slang, to get people to identify with being a deadhead or metalhead or whatever, then, you guessed it, "snagged".

I think this particluar form of raps was blatant abuse and served to really make us feel unstable. "you can trust us, we love you" and then pulling the rug out.

When I ran away from straight I burned my arm with cigarettes b/c I heard people in raps talking about it.

Please don't ever let anyone take your sensitivity. For me, it is so hard to find, b/c people can be, well, so insensitive. It is special.

Your story is truly sad. I appreciate you letting us know about it. In effect the life you had in straight rescued you from the hellish life you already had. And while it was hellish on its own, you had things there you'd bever had before. I know others with those kind of backgrounds.

Webcrawler, I know it's hard, but anyone still bragging about how tough their program was has his head very far up his ass. That's not why most of us are here. It's not about one-upping anymore.

I really feel guilty when I read about people who never did drugs before going in there. My thought is "well at least I deserved to be in there". But I didn't deserve it even if I was doing drugs. That place was just hurtful.

BTW-Straight targetted middle-calss families, so I'm curious if someone other than your parents payed for the place?  My step-mom reminds me all the time how expensive it was, but I can look at my student loan payment and know that (yup-college fund all went there).

enlighten us

I just rememebered some other media shit that happened.

A QVC-like channel ran a Xmas special called "straight from the heart" This was in the fall of '88. They had a professional songwriter write a song that went like this:

"Straight from the heart

I'm really free

Learning to live again

Being me

And coming home

Is the best part

Of (something something)

Straight from the heart"

They had us learn the song (I can't believe I still remember it) and taught us choreography. That is, we had to sway our arms back and forth during the chorus and shit.

Then they brought a camera crew in and filmed us singing the song and filmed some tame raps. No motivating, the topic was something to try to induce emotions, something warm and fuzzy, and then we simply put our hands up. I think the rap was like, "who do you care about in here". Whoever was crying got called on and the whole thing was filmed.

I remember thinking "this seems so fucking staged".

Then they actually aired the thing on QVC Xmas morning to help them sell bullshit. I think straight got money for it too.

It's so telling now that we couldn't motivate. The producers probably saw that and said, "no fucking way, we can't show that!"

I really like the PS2 "platform games". That's what the guys at the store called them. Examples: Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Tak...stuff like that.

Anyone know something good like that out there? I know these games are much simpler than what you all are talking about.

I hate games that you have to look up online to advance. Too hard! I don't have that kinda time and I just get bored with them.

"Trying to get his acceptance" was another way of saying kiss-ass. But I never heard acceptance-hungry specifically.