DAY 126. Survivors found: 2 I know I promised to make amends, make the political more “personal” or vice-versa. Problem is, I’m not a victim. That whole “culture of victimhood” never sat well with me, even as a kid; as I grew up, my adoptive mother pretty much laid exclusive claim to that racket. I [...]
DAY 122. Survivors found: 2 A couple weeks ago I picked up Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids. It’s written by Maia Szalavitz (an unusually kick-butt journalist), who also co-wrote The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog with Bruce Perry, though I’ve yet to read that one. [...]
DAY 114. Survivors found: 2 The abridged transcript of 10-year old Candace Newmaker‘s last session with attachment therapists Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder (aided by Candace’s foster mother Jeane) is public record. The two therapists, who operated out of Watkins’ Evergreen, Colorado, home, labeled their treatment of Candace as “rebirthing,” though it was in actuality [...]
DAY 112. Survivors found: 2 This is my very last post that will address in detail the tedious yet terrifying idiocy of people (many of whom identify with the “attachment parenting” movement) who oppose vaccinations. Image courtesy of ChildrensHospital.org I thank the Ineffable that I grew up long after the polio epidemic. Though to be [...]
DAY 108. Fellow survivors found: 2 I never planned to comment on autism beyond its connections to AT/P. But the more I learn about AT/P, the more I see that these connections run deep and more numerous than one might first anticipate. It was, after all, developed as a “treatment” for autistic children in the [...]
