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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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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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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*
Foster family number 3 In 1991, I was placed with a black family who were personal friends with placement number 2. The new family lived in the same area, a few streets away from foster family number 2. Within four … Continue reading
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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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Tagged child abuse, dwp-uk, foster care, healing, historic abuse, social services, social-services-uk
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BOOK – Child Sexual Abuse in Protective Custody: From a Lived Perspective.
I am writing a book based on my own lived experience within the Bristol City Care system. It is a book broken down into subsections and parts. That include Life Circumstance, Police, Courts & Legislation, Mental Health & Well-Being, and … Continue reading
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The Character Assassination of Foster Children: A Hidden Truth Within the UK Care System
By a survivor of the Bristol City Council care system (1980s–1990s) A Silent Injustice Hidden in Plain Sight The character assassination of foster children is one of society’s most uncomfortable secrets. It rarely enters public debate because it forces us … Continue reading
Child Sexual Abuse, being a foster child, and Justice
When one thinks of CSA and Justice, they think of a criminal process of arrest, sentencing and remedy. In the world of CSA, that is anything but the truth.. In CSA there are many hurdles to get over. The first … Continue reading
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