Back to the topic of programs abuse kids:
If for example you attended Ridge Creek Academy and you came onto fornits and said:
I was an inmate at that Gulag for 16 months and was abused.
What does that communicate to the reader?
What we know is that Ridge Creek is not a Gulag (it’s a boarding school), the kids are referred to as students and by the state of Georgia as Residents (not inmates). So the person making the statement is exaggerating to get peoples attention. So when they say they were abused we naturally would assume they were exaggerating also. We would read it as the kid was forced to follow some rules he/she didn’t like.
You cant exaggerate with inmate and Gulag and then expect people to believe you are not exaggerating when you use the word abuse.
We understand that many kids come on to fornits and say they were abused, but how do we differentiate between the real stories and those which are written for attention purposes only?
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