• stoly@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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        6 months ago

        Whatever it takes to avoid seeing differences from the “norm” as anything other than a moral problem.