Troubled S3 EP1: Amanda Householder Sues Circle of Hope, Agape Boarding School & BOTH their Churches
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2022
- Welcome back to Troubled, a podcast by/for Survivors of Institutional Youth Abuse.
THANK YOU for being here for the third season of our Independent self archival project. Two seasons bootlegged together over a cell phone, recorded in an old Prius wasn't too much for you? Well, masochism may pay off here as we embark on our most personal missions yet and play the cards we've held closest throughout the collective crucible of advocacy in a time of Covid.
Super quick 31st birthday catch-up with Amanda Householder, who just filed a lawsuit against her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, owners of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch AND their complicit and culpable cohorts - Agape Boarding School for Boys, Agape Baptist Church and Berean Baptist Church. We won't be getting into the nitty gritty of the details today, out of respect for Amanda, but we HIGHLY recommend you read the Kansas City Star Article "I was born into this." Daughter of Missouri reform school sues parents over abuse" by Judy Thomas and Laura Bauer, two rare gems of journalistic integrity. It is incredibly difficult to find ethical media allies of this caliber and we would just like to thank these women for how they have treated Survivors of Institutional Abuse throughout the last year of consistent coverage in Missouri. We wish they weren't an exception, but we are infinitely grateful they're both committed to exposing this crime against humanity as it plays out in their backyards.
KC STAR: www.kansascity.com/news/state...
Forgive us our ADHD and self-defense, in this and every episode. We look forward to exploring the specific traumas of ourselves and our peers who were forever altered relationally by peer-on-peer attack therapy, but we'll also briefly address it in this update.
We hope that Survivors will see other Survivors making moves and taking names as invitations or challenges to do so themselves. We hope that you will join us on the frontlines at every fork in the road. We also understand that for a historically invalidated community, and collectively gaslit community, that it can be triggering to see the mic passed to the next advocate. Often we can feel as if we are being spoken for, or over, or disregarded entirely. But every opportunity for a Survivor to speak, is an opportunity for Survivors to be heard. If we believe that we are stronger together, then we cannot continue to allow our community to reenact our trauma. MANY Survivors are neurodiverse, many of us experience RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria) - especially since it's the most common symptom of ADHD. Even if we don't have RSD dialing up the perception of rejection, we HAVE been abandoned, excluded, silenced, and otherwise pariah-ed to the point where you don't even need 'confirmation bias' to perceive the world as wholly unsafe, as well as the people in it. I dig it. I'm living in this world with you.
PLEASE let us be aware of how we deflect and project ourselves onto the world around us. We cannot move towards an exclusionary policy as we curate our collective movement.
Please join us in advocating for youth rights to liberate all kids in cages, from the border, through foster care, to the ToughLove so-called Troubled Teen Industry.
Until next time, #iseeyousurvivor and THANK YOU to all of our allies
Happy Birthday Amanda. Great work
I still don’t understand why some survivors are so hateful and so deeply programized, how they can be catty little trolls and say things against their fellow survivors or supporters?…. It makes no fucking sense to me. I mean, I get Stockholm syndrome and brainwashing, but what the hell man?! Amanda, I know it hurts the worst to be invalidated by the very people you are trying to speak out in order to support, and it might give you a feeling of self doubt or non-supportedness, but just know that the vast majority of us so appreciate your voice and admire what you are doing. Don’t listen to those peeps, they’re just confused about life.
I will definitely make sure she says this, appreciate you!
@@TroubledTruth thanks!
I believe Amanda and believe she’s worked hard on behalf of others to abolish the TTI (focus on Agape, Circle Of Hope, and stopping her parents).
It’s also clear that taking personal harm to stop abusers, such as in law suits, has a beneficial ripple effect.
-High control groups are harmful.
-Many of us have/had parents that are systemically harmful.
-any stride for stopping harm, helps.
We can do this: approach all of this work intersectionally, and BELIEVE ALL SURVIVORS of ALL institutional and systemic child abuse (also, if you’re still doubting) social science points to nuclear families in a non institutional settings as a TYPE of system, and a system than can be harmful.
-BELIEVE SURVIVORS.
Additionally: the adoption topic is worthy of attention.
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-children are often treated as owned humans. Adoption is seen by many survivors as a form of legal human trafficking, and it IS.
TTI survivors that were not adopted may benefit by looking up and watching content on TikTok known as “adoptiontok” to gain Intersectionality in our knowledge and why there is no purity pass for what the objectives are.
-children’s rights are HUMAN RIGHTS.
Per usual, glad we're in good company on the same page. Let's get to the root of this rot and burn it out together. I see you Survivor
@@TroubledTruth 💙✨🌛🌞 love to you and I see you too 💙✨🌛🌞
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Law ? Suit?
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