Pretty sure they blocked me after I commented, so no screenshot.
The US essentially has no restrictions on what parents can do to their children, or pay to have done to them. These companies will show up at night, and take a child out of their bed at night. They explicitly tell parents not to warn the kid what will happen.
Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night, maybe forced to quickly pack, and then be loaded in a van. You have no idea where you are going or why or who or what is going on. You get taken to a facility which is basically a cult. You might be dumped out in rural Utah, with people that have zero training in wilderness safety, who might punish you by denying you food and water.
Children die in these places all the fucking time. There generally is no state or federal oversight of these facilities - so there aren’t really investigations. These places are havens for child predators.
When I was sexually abused at a similar facility and tried to report it - I was placed on heavy doses of antipsychotics in retaliation. They drugged me unconscious, and then punished me for sleeping during “class.” As an adult, I have involuntary shakes and movements associated with the medical malpractice enacted on me.
These places don’t get investigated, they don’t get shut down. I think Utah is one of the only states with any form of agency that watches over these places. Child protective services won’t go in, health care agencies won’t go in.
Children have no rights in the US. They are the property of their parents, to be disposed of as they wish. And fuckers like this agency are delighted to kidnap children that their parents can’t be assed to parent.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just spent a couple hours reading the first 70 chapters. That is hard to read and impossible to stop reading.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
NOOOOOOOO 1000073783
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Oh my god he became a drug kingpin
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait I don’t recognize that. Fuck, it’s longer and I’m gonna have to read it again
ladel@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
This is so engrossing. I’ve made it to chapter 77 while “working”. What a story.
hzl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.