Journalist Doing Story on Teen Transportation Industry. Your Help Is Needed

Actually I have been beaten, starved, force-worked, and everything else you listed. 95% of that was done by my mother and step father for years until I reached adult good and could get out myself and then abused for even more years by my ex at that time. Abuse is shitty no matter how you go about it but coming from people who are supposed to love you is a real fucked way to live.

I also never once named the school that my dad was going to send me to but it is actually a good school and I know a lot of people personally who went there and know that it is not one of those abusive places. At most you can call them strict. Hell, I even know people who are 20 years older than I am who went there and even then they had good experiences at that school.

Your assumptions are inappropriate and destructive! Who are you to downplay what I know form my own life and my own experiences? Especially when you don't even know me.

I also never said I supported transporting or anything of that nature. I said what my experience was and what happened to me.

And having been through too many forms of abuse than any person should ever have to go through, I can tell you that I would much rather have experienced the abuse from people who had no reason or obligation to give a fuck about me than to have it come from my so called family.

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