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The Hidden Cost of Survival: How Trauma Becomes a Financial Burden for Care Survivors
Trigger Warning: Mentions of trauma, abuse, and systemic neglect.Written from lived experience. The Price of Healing For children who grow up in state care, the trauma doesn’t end when the placement ends. The system’s failures echo through adulthood — in … Continue reading
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The Inheritance of Files: How the State Turned Guardianship into Surveillance
Trigger Warning: Mentions of state care, child abuse, and surveillance of care-experienced parents.Written from lived experience. A Child of the Court I became a ward of court at eight years old. From that moment, the state claimed legal guardianship over … Continue reading
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When Trauma Meets Bureaucracy: Living with CPTSD in a System That Doesn’t Understand It
There is something uniquely exhausting about living with Complex PTSD, not just the symptoms themselves, but the constant negotiation with systems that don’t understand them. The very institutions that claim to protect and support people with disabilities or trauma-related conditions, … Continue reading
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The Barriers of Red Tape: How Systems Silence Survivors
One of the most damaging parts of surviving abuse is not only what was done to you. it’s what follows when you try to tell the truth. The act of speaking out requires courage. Seeking justice, understanding, or even basic … Continue reading
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Fostering for Purpose Vs Financial Gain.
Fostering is a good will job, that requires skill, time and a lot of energy. Good foster parents deserve financial support and help when fostering children. Children are expensive, and giving up your life to give someone else a fairer … Continue reading
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Foster Placement 6 *trigger warning*
Please read placement number 6 before reading placement 6 *trigger warning*. this post is a part two, and has a part one. As I stated in part one, the foster mother was fake, manipulative and somewhat sadistic in her mannerisms. … Continue reading
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Placement Number 6
The family who lived in placement number 6, were foster parents whom had four biological sons. This family fostered up to four girls at a time, mainly from biracial backgrounds. The foster children slept on bunk beds in one room … Continue reading
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Foster Care *Trigger Warning*
I was born in Bristol City, England UK in 1979, after my parents relocated to Bristol in the early 1970s. Most of my childhood was spent growing up during the 1980s and 90s. Bristol has a rich complex history, and … Continue reading
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CSA: From a legal perspective.
To be clear from the start. When looking at your experience from a legal perspective, the therapeutic side does not really come into it. Legal and therapy are too different entities that have too different jobs to do. In blunt … Continue reading
The Interrelation of CSA and Personal Circumstance.
Child sexual abuse affects every survivor differently — but the outcomes are not shaped by trauma alone. Class, race, gender, economics, and family systems interrelate with how survivors experience abuse, how they are responded to, and how they recover. Drawing … Continue reading
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