Photos that his mother, Tarah Fleischman, received from the academy appear to show that Cody, who is diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder and ADHD, lost a significant amount of weight while at the school.
Seems that the theme this week is that parents will send children with medical conditions to torture camps in order to magically beat the strange out of them.
Yes, although it also needs to be repeatedly said that a lot of these kids have no serious mental illness and are sent to these places by their Christian parents for being queer.
Whatever it takes to avoid seeing differences from the “norm” as anything other than a moral problem.
I’m just going to leave this here. It’s harrowing.
I got as far as the lice shower. That’s not far, but it’s already such an emotional gut punch. I wish I could read more to give a more well-grounded compliment, but I’m 100% not in the headspace for it.
I expect Jamaican boys were too.
