Attachment With an Accent (10.4.2010) [First Draft]

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Attachment

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Adelaide Eleanor Dupont

10 April 2010


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By the time you read Attachment with an Accent, itwill have been 10 years since Candace Tiara Elmore,a 10-year-old girl, died on 18th April 2000.

Ten years on, survivors of coercive therapies such as,or similar to, the ones she experienced, are speakingand writing more widely about their experiences.

The proverb You cant go home again is a very truesaying, for most people in most situations.

It means, generally, that you cant go back to thecircumstances of your birth.

And, yet, I read just now on the Internet about aRussian-born boy returning to Russia from America.He has been deported.

This is during the time that the US and Russia aremaking an agreement that neither side will usenuclear weapons against the other.

Because of this young man, Russia is again sayingthat they will not allow their children to be adoptedto the US.

But it is not only because of him.

As you will see and read, you will find out aboutyoung children like David Polreis. He died in 1997.


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I would like to say thank you and acknowledge thesurvivors who have spoken out about theirexperiences, and the professionals who have stood

out and stuck their necks, often in the face of legalthreats and threats to their security and safety, invarious fora from the Internet to face-to-face.

Two years ago, at Easter time (26th March 2008), Ibegan to read Darkness Visible.

Roughly contemporaneous [within two years] of thetreatment of Candace Elmore (Newmaker), asurvivor told her story.

Over the past two years, I have seen many commentsand opinions in regard to this and experiences likeit.

Over time, other survivors began to tell their stories.Until that time, many had been isolated.

The mission widened too. It became about exposingthe doctors and therapists in whose authority thesepractices had been done. It also became aboutfinding allies. And it became about educating the

public.

It also became about celebrating the survivorscreativity with art and reading. They could nowenjoy these things in the context of their wholelives.


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Please do the right thing and look beyond theheadlines.

We have examined a lot of aspects in the UnitedStates and internationally: including the things weare traditionally not supposed to talk about religion, politics and sex.


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Chronological Table of Contents

History

Before 2008

2008-February

2008-March

2008-April

2008-May

2008-June

2008-July

2009-January

2009-February

2009-March

2009-April

2009-May

2009-June

2009-July

2009-August

2009-September

2009-October

2009-November

2009-December

2010-January

2010-February

2010-March

2010-April

Current EventsAfter 2010


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Geographical Regions Table of Contents

EUROPE NORTHAMERICA

SOUTHAMERICA

AUSTRALIA ASIA AFRICA

UnitedKingdom

UnitedStates ofAmerica

Haiti Victoria China Ethiopia

France Canada Guatemala New SouthWales

Vietnam

Netherlands Brazil SouthAustralia

Thailand

Germany Queensland

Austria Northern

TerritoryRomania Western

Australia

CzechRepublic

AustralianCapitalTerritory

Slovakia


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Survivor Accounts Table of Contents

Wayward Radish

Katrina (part 1) (part 2)Mia (part 1) (part 2)Renee

Gravelle

Ginger

Please note, that unless noted, these are the pennames of the above survivors.

Please note, also, that some of the accounts areinterviews.

All accounts linked to here come from A Search forSurvivors (2008 present).

If you are a survivor and are reading Attachmentwith an Accent, I would love to hear from you!

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Attachment With an Accent (10.4.2010) [First Draft]