IMPORTANT. PLEASE DO NOT TL;DR.
Hi guys....I know I don't really update this anymore, but I have something incredibly important and urgent to share with you. I am copying the following from copperbadge (with some editing) who has done a very good job of discussing the situation at hand, and it relates very much to me and my friendship with waywardradish, in a much more articulate way than I ever could. This is something and someone I have been following for a long time, and a subject that I have been absolutely horrified by and involved in. Please read this post with the utmost attention and care. Thank you.
As many (I hope) of you know, one of my friends, waywardradish, runs a support blog for survivors of "holding therapy", a dangerous, abusive, and sometimes lethal practice performed exclusively on children. Predominantly aimed at adopted and foster children, who often have no strong advocate and like all children have little physical defence, this abuse can involve wrapping them in blankets until they vomit, holding them down until they lose consciousness (or die), and forcing them into humiliating and terrifying situations over which they have no control.
Her main site, A Search For Survivors, has been suspended by wordpress because she has become visible and is being targeted by practitioners of holding therapy, who are threatened by her voice and (one hopes) losing money because of the truth she's telling.
A mirror of her likely last post on wordpress is here, and links to a survivor's account:
"The therapist diagnosed me with ODD and RAD and my sister with RAD, she showed my mom how to do 'holding therapy.' She ignored the fact that our adopted father had physically and sexually abused me and that restraining me sent me into panic attacks...Everyone in the room was helping to hurt me, and like a rapist, they told me when I just stopped fighting and took it like a good girl, everything would be okay."
As of a few days ago, was fully shut down by WordPress, and only due to many responses by followers of the blog urging against the shutdown of the website, was it brought back up, but with waywardradish unable to update and edit posts, essentially censoring the site completely.
I strongly urge you if you have a spare moment to send a letter of protest regarding the suspension of this journal to WordPress at tosreports@wordpress.com and to pass this message along.
Please e-mail tosreports@wordpress.com with a short, concise protest against WordPress censoring survivors of child abuse at the behest of the very people responsible for their abuse.
She asks that you phrase any protests, inquiries and arguments with the utmost courtesy.
Here is a sample letter, sent by copperbadge, which she welcomes anyone to use:
I strongly protest the suspension of the Wordpress journal childtorture.wordpress.com. It is a vital and invaluable resource for holding therapy survivors, and has assisted individuals like myself in becoming educated about this practice. Holding therapy is abusive and lethal and aimed at children, who have no voice. The documentation it presents includes firsthand experiences, eyewitness accounts, and news, medical, and legal documents available to the public.
In suspending this journal you are doing both the community and your own public image a severe disservice.
Please remove the suspension on this journal and give abuse survivors back their voice.
Email Copypasta takes a minute and a half, but it means a lot to Radish and to abuse survivors to know that they're not alone.
Radish is currently working on a mirror site here, where you can read up on everything, if this is completely new to you. You can also join the Cause I set up on Facebook, where there is more information about what you can do to spread awareness about Attachment Therapy and child abuse. There is also a Facebook group.
If you do nothing else, I urge you, at the very please, to PLEASE RE-BLOG THIS POST! Send it everywhere you can. We need to get the word out about this issue that not many seem to turn an eye to.
Please lend a hand. Thanks, guys.
As many (I hope) of you know, one of my friends, waywardradish, runs a support blog for survivors of "holding therapy", a dangerous, abusive, and sometimes lethal practice performed exclusively on children. Predominantly aimed at adopted and foster children, who often have no strong advocate and like all children have little physical defence, this abuse can involve wrapping them in blankets until they vomit, holding them down until they lose consciousness (or die), and forcing them into humiliating and terrifying situations over which they have no control.
Her main site, A Search For Survivors, has been suspended by wordpress because she has become visible and is being targeted by practitioners of holding therapy, who are threatened by her voice and (one hopes) losing money because of the truth she's telling.
A mirror of her likely last post on wordpress is here, and links to a survivor's account:
"The therapist diagnosed me with ODD and RAD and my sister with RAD, she showed my mom how to do 'holding therapy.' She ignored the fact that our adopted father had physically and sexually abused me and that restraining me sent me into panic attacks...Everyone in the room was helping to hurt me, and like a rapist, they told me when I just stopped fighting and took it like a good girl, everything would be okay."
As of a few days ago, was fully shut down by WordPress, and only due to many responses by followers of the blog urging against the shutdown of the website, was it brought back up, but with waywardradish unable to update and edit posts, essentially censoring the site completely.
I strongly urge you if you have a spare moment to send a letter of protest regarding the suspension of this journal to WordPress at tosreports@wordpress.com and to pass this message along.
Please e-mail tosreports@wordpress.com with a short, concise protest against WordPress censoring survivors of child abuse at the behest of the very people responsible for their abuse.
She asks that you phrase any protests, inquiries and arguments with the utmost courtesy.
Here is a sample letter, sent by copperbadge, which she welcomes anyone to use:
I strongly protest the suspension of the Wordpress journal childtorture.wordpress.com. It is a vital and invaluable resource for holding therapy survivors, and has assisted individuals like myself in becoming educated about this practice. Holding therapy is abusive and lethal and aimed at children, who have no voice. The documentation it presents includes firsthand experiences, eyewitness accounts, and news, medical, and legal documents available to the public.
In suspending this journal you are doing both the community and your own public image a severe disservice.
Please remove the suspension on this journal and give abuse survivors back their voice.
Email Copypasta takes a minute and a half, but it means a lot to Radish and to abuse survivors to know that they're not alone.
Radish is currently working on a mirror site here, where you can read up on everything, if this is completely new to you. You can also join the Cause I set up on Facebook, where there is more information about what you can do to spread awareness about Attachment Therapy and child abuse. There is also a Facebook group.
If you do nothing else, I urge you, at the very please, to PLEASE RE-BLOG THIS POST! Send it everywhere you can. We need to get the word out about this issue that not many seem to turn an eye to.
Please lend a hand. Thanks, guys.