218

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Guess it’s time to share this again.

GET YOUR FEELINGS OUT

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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 11 points 1 week ago

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 team abuse industry this comic depicts, it’s quite a fucking journey.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week 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 0 points 1 week 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 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week 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.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week 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.

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I just spent a couple hours reading the first 70 chapters. That is hard to read and impossible to stop reading.

[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week 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 ?

[-] ladel@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

This is so engrossing. I've made it to chapter 77 while "working". What a story.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago
[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

Oh my god he became a drug kingpin

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

ive been reading this for about 5-6 hours, it's been worth it

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
218 points (98.2% liked)

A Boring Dystopia

12714 readers
63 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS