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  • sappho [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I read a lot about these camps as a teenager because religious parents (like mine) tend to send queer kids (like me) there. I wanted to figure out how to escape if kidnapped, or, more realistically, how to preserve my psyche if I ended up there. My eventual conclusion was that - you really fucking can't, and I hope to God I never end up in a scenario like this. You have no legal protections as a minor and typically no one knows where you are so you are stuck there regardless of the outside support you've gotten. The only thing I learned is to never fucking leave the country because that's where the really bad ones are, those are the ones that will kill you for sure. They sometimes take you to a public airport and that's when you can get help, and you must, it's life or death.

      • sappho [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Not surprised, in one of the stories I read the kid was literally cuffed to one of the kidnappers and asking for help and airport security did not care. My plan was always to make a huge commotion, potentially start assaulting people. Would rather be in the custody of cops than these psychos.