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In Reply to: Re: What kept us in the family? posted by No Name on October 23, 2002 at 14:50:24:
First of all, I don't know who you are "No Name", and when you referred to "Us" FGAs or whatever I was trying to clarify whether YOU were FGA according to all the labels that have been mentioned since before I entered the conversation. I have no shame in having joined as what has been called FGA. I believe it is a myth to categorically say that every SGA experienced what Mene did, or some others. At the same time I KNOW that some FGAs DID. I did not choose to join a CULT run by a maniac. THAT is not what was presented to me. Personally, I don't think it matters so much why people actually joined, but what they believed shortly after joining OR before. Many people with horrible motivations have life changing experiences for the positive. So I could change the direction of your question about being forced to join and ask WERE YOU FORCED TO STAY? Or could it just possibly be that we were all duped regardless of age joining or birth into it? I would not even WANT to go to MovingOn.org and ask questions if I was going to be ATTACKED. I have advocated for help for all ages. I have acknowledged a need for space for those that were second generation or younger, born into the family. I have never said that I have the corner on pain in fact, I do not. But the point is, that NO ONE GROUP has that. At least, that is how I see it. And pain? I have plenty of fucking pain from birth on. So I don't need any SHIT from anyone regardless of age. I don't deserve it. I have not "asked for it". By the way when I mentioned FGA I said MANY of US. NOT ALL OF US. Another thing, I don't know who is or isn't "SGA" when they post here. Frankly, I think my basic point has been that I AM NOT THE JUDGE of who does or does not deserve help. Neither do I have any power or say, nor DESIRE it with regard to any concerted effort by ex members. I have contacts locally that I can work on to try to make available some avenues of help for any age exer. I will continue to work on that. And by the way, I will not be controlling that either, just advocating for it. FOR ANY EXERS. In fact from any CULT, because I can see how it could be healthier to discuss similarities in cult control and abuses. And with regards to your number 5.: Why don't you reread the last few months of posts where I have posted and tell me where I proclaimed myself as "special"? That is the OPPOSITE of what I have been advocating for.
