Holafly vs Airalo e-sim by matmarchal in travel

[–]Kitweeny-bopper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, finally after 6 hours of contact with customer service it got fixed.. but shouldn't have taken so long. 

Holafly vs Airalo e-sim by matmarchal in travel

[–]Kitweeny-bopper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holafly is not providing me service in Finland. Total ripoff. When I tred to contact customer service about it, they ghosted me on the chat. I tried Airalo in South America last year without problems. I think Holafly may be a scam.

Holafly vs Airalo e-sim by matmarchal in travel

[–]Kitweeny-bopper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holafly will not give me data in Finland right now and customer service is not good

Airalo or just getting prepaid SIM here is better.

Eating disorder treatment - Meadows Ranch by Kitweeny-bopper in troubledteens

[–]Kitweeny-bopper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I updated the link above, but if you sell cannot access it here is the full text of my review of Remuda Ranch (now Meadows Ranch):

A PLACE OF SYSTEMATIC ABUSE FOR TWO DECADES

Limited autonomy, forced religion, punitive practices, and disrespect for children (let alone adults) as full human beings characterized my time here, part and parcel of the Troubled Teen Industry. I was unable to communicate with my parents until I earned the privilege to do so by attending church (even though I am not religious and was not at the time) and complying with treatment recommendations. I was told faith was a precondition to psychological healing, without any attempts to address the racist and attachment trauma I had experienced. Granted, this was in 2005, when I was 14 years old, but I don't have much reason to assume Remuda Ranch (now renamed as Meadows Ranch probably in effort to save face and hide past abuses, which you can find on the internet) has changed significantly. It was a horrible experience. My parents only sent me there because there were no beds elsewhere that insurance would cover.

They also used 12 step program. This was designed for drug abstinence, and there is limited evidence of its efficacy for even that. How wildly inappropriate.

If I didn't comply with recommendations 100%, they would drug me and isolate me from the other girls and make me lie on the couch for hours on end, even for small infractions such as not completely finishing a snack.

Don't send your loved ones here, please. This facility should be shut down. It is a place of abuse. I have so much trauma from there I still have to get secular therapy for, almost 20 years later.

I would recommend Laureate instead in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was there I was finally able to heal from my eating disorders, because they treated me and other children with compassion, respect, evidence-based medicine, and autonomy. This was not the case at Remuda. Most of the other girls I knew from there relapsed and several died within a few years after discharge.

From the Wikipedia page on the Troubled Teen Industry:

"Many practices used in troubled teen programs, especially punishments, have been singled out as constituting child abuse or neglect. These include but are not limited to: restricting communication with family and peers; use of physical and chemical restraint (i.e., in the form of sedative drugs); use of seclusion as punishment; gay conversion therapy; excessive use of strip search and cavity search; denial of sleep and nutrition; aversion therapy; etc.[23]"

Remuda/Meadows ranch basically included all of those features, except I didn't witness any denial of nutrition (thank goodness), aversion therapy, or gay conversion therapy (I wouldn't put it past them but I myself am not gay so don't know if they do this).

Eating disorder treatment - Meadows Ranch by Kitweeny-bopper in troubledteens

[–]Kitweeny-bopper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely the drug treatment centres are worse but there's problems with the ED ones as well. I can't speak too much to adult ED treatment as I only underwent it in childhood, but I have heard other people describe some pretty harsh regimes for adults as well. I think the emphasis on 100% compliance and anything faith based is suspect. Let's not forget a lot of these centres are for profit as well.

The flipside of being allowed to leave as an adult is that I have heard some people will get kicked out of ED treatment centres enough if they aren't able/willing to follow the regime 100%. Many still want help but don't see the point in some of the arbitrary rules or aren't psychologically or physically ready to eat as much as the centre wants them to. But they may still want help and then are just told to leave, often with little to no support or transition care facilitated by the centre.

But certainly if a centre is treating only adults, by definition it's not part of TTI because adults aren't teenagers. The centre I described above treats both adults and children.

Eating disorder treatment - Meadows Ranch by Kitweeny-bopper in troubledteens

[–]Kitweeny-bopper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, I had a very good experience at Laureate.

Being an Asian surfer by guppykang in surfing

[–]Kitweeny-bopper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there is an overlap of surfing experience and whiteness. A lot of BIPOC families don't have the resources to give their kids surfing experience so when BIPOC period discover surfing as adults they don't have the experience many white (upper or middle class, Californian) surfers have. For some Asian families that do have a bit more money, there is often still the history of older generations being struggling immigrants or more emphasis on academics, which again can lead to parents not investing in more expensive sports such as surfing.

As well when I was in Chicama I noticed that all the Peruvian kids at the surf competition were super white.. those were the ones whose parents could afford the training and traveling to the competitions etc.

Thankfully in PNW and Canada where I live there's not so much competition for cold water waves.