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Guess it’s time to share this again.
GET YOUR FEELINGS OUT
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. Thanks for sharing it.
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.
Apologies for contributing to that feeling, definitely wasn’t my intention to upset you!
For those who haven’t read it and are unfamiliar with the horrific teen abuse industry this comic depicts, it’s quite a fucking journey.
It’s great - I actually shared it as one of the links in my 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.
Oh lol missed it my bad! Thought I checked your links
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
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!
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.
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.
Someone online showed it to me, so I’m glad to share it with other people now. Fucking insane shit. You can bet I’m always looking out for red flags on my friends as their kids get older, in case they fall into one of these traps.
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.
It a truly harrowing experience
I just spent a couple hours reading the first 70 chapters. That is hard to read and impossible to stop reading.
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 ?
The parents often truly do not understand how bad these camps are and are often deceived by the institutions themselves. Part of the strategy is to make the treatment so outlandish and to use such strange terminology that the kids can’t properly communicate the abuse without sounding insane. Then they keep telling the parents “no matter what don’t listen to them. They will lie to get out of this. They need to finish it, to see it through, or they will end up in juvie on worse.”
It’s horrific
Jesus fucking Christ on a cracker, this makes no sense to me.
When your kid has behavioral issues that start spiraling out of control, it can put a ton of strain on you and your family, especially if there isn’t a mental health diagnosis (often ignored and even then not a given!). It canbecome all consuming. You can’t send them to hang out with friends, you can’t send them to school, you can’t do anything without them likely lashing out or otherwise causing issues that disrupt everyone's life constantly. That does not mean the kid is doing something wrong, the reality is just that it can be incredibly difficult to deal with day in and day out for.
At some point you’ll look for anyone that says “I can fix this. We can teach your kids what they need to learn.”
Thank you for taking the time to write that. I can understand those circumstances, what I can't wrap my head around is the methods described. Children need acceptance and love, on top of discipline; not punishement.
American culture fetishizes "tough love" often at the expense of empathy. Its why our culture bounces between "beat children and make them work" and "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas". These institutions peddle the idea that parents are too soft on bad kids and since it fits our cultural narratives parents and judges often fall for it. This leads to overcorrection ("just talk it through with kids without punishment or consequences") that reinforces the narrative.
There's also this idea that teenagers arent really people with rights yet. Like, its insane to me that one can force a 16 year old into such a place against their will. They aren't adults yet, but they're close and deserve basic rights. But we have a strong cultural feeling of pater potestas when it comes to underage people.
That’s the other twisted side of all of this. Most of the time, it’s parents who think they are doing what is best for theirchildren. They truly want them to be happy and are just doing the best they can. These horrible organizations suck up their money and prey on their hope
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.
Same reason victims of sexual assault struggle to go after the perpetrators.
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.
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”.
They also close down and rename all the time for exactly this reason. It makes it awfully hard to do anything when the court records say We Fuck Up Your Kid LLC hasn't existed for 3 years. There's also often layers of legal shells that need to be peeled away too - a lot of them hire teens and young adults partly because they don't know the law and are easy to throw under the bus when someone DOES die, and they're easy to threaten into silence. That also doesn't get into the complicity of local LEOs, town and state governments, and just outright lying - my former boyfriend wound up in one before he killed himself, and to everyone on the outside, they were just told it was a mental hospital for teens, thus, anything they told you was a lie.*
NOOOOOOOO
Wait I don't recognize that. Fuck, it's longer and I'm gonna have to read it again
Oh my god he became a drug kingpin
ive been reading this for about 5-6 hours, it's been worth it
Finished it
This is so engrossing. I've made it to chapter 77 while "working". What a story.
For real it’s really hard to stop reading