I just spent a couple hours reading the first 70 chapters. That is hard to read and impossible to stop reading.
Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
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nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Thank you for sharing this. Probably one of the hardest reads of my life, it’s incredibly powerful and well written so it conveys the horrors of the experience in an almost visceral way.
It also really helped me understand at a much more personal level how these addiction/reeducation camps and cults break people mentally and emotionally.
Sure, you read about these kinds of things happening in the news, but it never hit home for me what that experience is like until reading this.
Thank you.
ladel@feddit.uk 9 months ago
This is so engrossing. I’ve made it to chapter 77 while “working”. What a story.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 months ago
NOOOOOOOO 1000073783
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait I don’t recognize that. Fuck, it’s longer and I’m gonna have to read it again
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 months ago
Oh my god he became a drug kingpin
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 months ago
ive been reading this for about 5-6 hours, it’s been worth it
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 months ago
Finished it
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I made it to chapter 60 over the last 90 minutes.
I can’t even describe how angry I feel about that. Expletives don’t fit. I’m not big on death penalty, but I think these people deserve it - more than some who are sentenced to death.
I also am feeling incredibly grateful that my parents didn’t get caught up in the scam.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 9 months ago
wtf
is this real? I didn’t read past whenvhe was given anti lice to shower, but can you tell me : are yhe parents responsible for this ?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
[deleted]Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
But don’t the kids who finish take revenge on the institutes a couple of years later when they are adults and realize how fucked up it is?
I mean, at least sue them or something? It said it existed 40 years.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
The kids who get out usually are not in a shape to fight back either mentally or financially and society looks down on them.
The best attempt was Paris Hilton.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
They are so fucked up when they leave that they don’t have the capacity to do much.
And even so, the institutions are protected. The people who get out “have a track record”.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve only been able to make it to page 10. People often mock the idea of being “triggered” but fuck, it makes me need my trazadone. I want to print this in full color and leave it everywhere I can.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t judge yourself for a ptsd reaction. People mocked triggers, but it was people who don’t understand that acute reminders of traumatic experiences are not merely unpleasant
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah - I wish more folks understood what the experience is like. It’s like my brain lights on fire. I get angry, extremely angry and can be verbally really aggressive. If I’m alone, I can usually self regulate, but when I’m around others it’s much harder.
It’s been a struggle as I work to get this facility shut down. When I’m calling state agencies to get my torturer’s facility investigated, the second that I can pick up that they don’t believe, or if they minimize my experience - it ratchets me into a world of pure anger and panic.
I knocked over a container earlier and it made a loud sound as it landed on the ground - it made me angry. Embarrassingly ridiculously angry. It’s stupid, but I had the urge to throw the thing at the wall! I wanted to cuss it out! It’s an inanimate object, it didn’t break, I just needed to pick it up and put the pencils back in. It wasn’t a big deal. But in that split second where I went to that lizard brain, I was furious!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you ever been to a support group for this? What you’re describing is a pretty severe ptsd reaction. I know you said elsewhere that you’ve done a lot of mental health stuff and it’s not helped and has been furtherly traumatic, but having other people who can listen and you can know that they do understand might be good for you.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
[deleted]andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s great - I actually shared it as one of the links in post. People do need to know what these places look like, and that visceral reaction I have to it hopefully means that it inspires others.
hzl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
The energy tied up in all of that is so familiar. Just the entire vibe of senseless unmitigated cruelty and mindless nonsensical screaming hits so hard and reminds me so much of some of the shittiest people I’ve encountered in my life. What Joe describes feels like a horrible distillation of something that’s a lot more pervasive than any one ‘school’ or cult or particular group of organized assholes systematically ruining people’s lives. It hit hard. Tanks for sharing it.