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Looks like peer pressure is at it again. Quick note about how far this can go with some kids.
I can't remember if I mentioned this here publicly (if so, forgive my redundancy), but when I was in my mid teens, I was in a placement with a girl whose polyabuse and cruel treatment was right up there in the top 10% of the worst of the worst among kids who'd actually survived. Her life would've been one of the stand outs on the FP here. She was the worst self-abuser I'd ever seen at the time and her entire body from head/scalp to toe was a living testament to the level of insane self-loathing a family can inflict on an innocent child.
One of her things was doing this eraser thing to her arms, thighs and abdomen. The permanent ruts from her going "into the zone" and using any kind of erasers she could get hold of (steal) were bone deep and so wide that at that time they couldn't be surgically filled, repaired and skin grafted. They also couldn't do it b/c she couldn't be strapped to her bed in leather restraints and given Thorazine round the clock to tranq her out for 6-8 weeks (illegal) until they were completely healed. She peeled off by hand the first skin graft they'd tried on the largest trench she'd erased into her thigh (about the size of a reg. hot dog), never any drugs, ice or anesthesia of any kind necessary. What pain she couldn't block with her mind, she felt completely comfortable with. The pain had become her Xanax. So, keep an eye on your kiddos and their friends. Even without any mental instability, this is nothing to play with when it comes to scarring and with today's "superbugs" going around.
"The Eraser Challenge": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/31/eraser-challenge-connecticut-school_n_5064561.html
I can't remember if I mentioned this here publicly (if so, forgive my redundancy), but when I was in my mid teens, I was in a placement with a girl whose polyabuse and cruel treatment was right up there in the top 10% of the worst of the worst among kids who'd actually survived. Her life would've been one of the stand outs on the FP here. She was the worst self-abuser I'd ever seen at the time and her entire body from head/scalp to toe was a living testament to the level of insane self-loathing a family can inflict on an innocent child.
One of her things was doing this eraser thing to her arms, thighs and abdomen. The permanent ruts from her going "into the zone" and using any kind of erasers she could get hold of (steal) were bone deep and so wide that at that time they couldn't be surgically filled, repaired and skin grafted. They also couldn't do it b/c she couldn't be strapped to her bed in leather restraints and given Thorazine round the clock to tranq her out for 6-8 weeks (illegal) until they were completely healed. She peeled off by hand the first skin graft they'd tried on the largest trench she'd erased into her thigh (about the size of a reg. hot dog), never any drugs, ice or anesthesia of any kind necessary. What pain she couldn't block with her mind, she felt completely comfortable with. The pain had become her Xanax. So, keep an eye on your kiddos and their friends. Even without any mental instability, this is nothing to play with when it comes to scarring and with today's "superbugs" going around.
"The Eraser Challenge": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/31/eraser-challenge-connecticut-school_n_5064561.html
