Errors that were corrected but never addressed indeed. I do believe I was one of those children as I lost 12 years of my life due to being split. It's interesting because I recollect psychologists and therapists diagnosing me as having dissociative disorder but never once saying that I was split. Despite the very glaring fact that I had lost 12 years of my life. That's a pretty big sign. I heavily suspect my case was "managed" for a variety of reasons. Although I experienced Gowan's "schizophrenic" break with the hearing of voices (splits) and recorded the experience in my journals with much distress, I lost all recollection of the event. I forgot the entire experience and what would be my alter has that peculiar name that I would have never chosen. Someone's bright idea might have been to manipulate that alter to make it a companion. It's really quite cute. If I was supposed to be such a smarty pants, then why not give me an Owl like Athena? But it was never properly addressed and the scenario opened me up to significant emotional abuse for the rest of my life. My parents used my amnesia against me and still try to.

I almost wonder if they bothered to examine the home lives with any intensity before engaging in what they were doing. It's almost telling that many of us who do have more significant amnesia lumps also have made statements into the possibility or previous thought that some "other" factor outside of the program was the possible root. I suspect that it was the combination. If a child who has a good enough home life responds like Menny's mom did, that's one thing. What would be the effect on a child whose home life was framed by abuse? No safe quarter. Anywhere. From anyone. They'd be alone in the world facing perceived monstrosities. That's a really heavy load for a child.

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