Yesterday he signed a bill targeting abusive “troubled teen” facilities. Someone who will always be special to me was sent to one of these. They’re probably happy right now—that I’ll never know for sure doesn’t even matter.

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[–] AnExcellentSteelHorse@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Someone posted a link to this autobiographical comic about one of these schools on hexbear a while ago, I clicked on it an basically immediately spent the rest of the day finishing it. Completely horrifying and fascinating.

https://elan.school/

Content warnings for pretty much everything you'd expect from a true story about this incredibly abusive institution. Harrowing read.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

elan school is horrific and also very well illustrated and told

a lot of it seems outlandish until you start reading other peoples accounts and realize that he is telling the truth. that is how that place was

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah this is one of the most horrifying pieces of media I've ever consumed, it really does need content warnings. This disturbed me far more than any horror movie, because everything in it is real.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I still think about it a lot.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine doing this to your kid. Imagine paying money to do this to your kid

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The fucked up thing is the way they keep the kids from telling their family what is really happening to them. Like a fascist government, monitoring all correspondence, even when the family comes to see him, it’s totally 1. fake, coached things for him to say and 2. monitored at all times and can be ended at any time.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Every time I hear about any part of this system, I feel sick