Until it is done.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I was thrown into group home hell as an early teen. It was SDA, only guys, no music, Internet, TV, strict poorly cooked diet, intense manual labor and no phones. Calls from my parents for 15 min once a week if I “behaved”. Intense religious programming and your leaving was determined arbitrarily based on “points”.

    Spent roughly 3-4 years of my early teen experience there before I decided I was no longer interested in participating and decided instead on choosing to be a problem. Parents pulled me out and sent me off to boarding school when they got worried things weren’t working in their favor.

    I’ve recovered slowly since. It’s been about half my life ago now and I still have night terrors and rages that make it not possible for my s/o and I to sleep together. I punch, kick and scream in my sleep.

    I didn’t have a chance to even consider my gender until my mid 20’s and my parents have abandoned my sister and I over us refusing to conform to their views for their love. I will forever blame that awful place for robbing my childhood. For raping my friends. For beating kids. For forcing religious practice.

    I grew stronger in many ways because of the hell, but despite its efforts.
















  • See previous comment about golden parachutes and implosion of organization.

    Yours is the same logic used to sue companies instead of people.

    This is feeling petulant so I’m taking my step out now. Hope you find the joy you’re looking for, but seeing as you noted earlier that you live in the USA and noting the instance you’re posting from, I suspect you know all about what will be coming around the corner for trans people should the states be allowed to implode on itself.



  • This is like being happy an evil company is going under while the CEO and their cronies have already taken their golden parachute on the next project.

    Like… Nothing’s changed. The entity is not a person. Nothing has been stopped. If anything they were just allowed to get away with it, while the suffering of everyone affected remains.

    You’re allowed to be happy, but you’re naive to think this is the end of anything… Or even a push in a positive direction. No one’s going to let you have that narrative when it’s presented openly.