Misplaced Mistrust

Hi everyone. It’s been weeks since I last wrote a post. I’ve been struggling intensely again, but as of today it looks like the situation won’t spiral entirely out of control. You see, for months now I’ve been suspecting that my institution’s higher-ups, such as the behavior specialist, were making use of the fact that I didn’t know my rights. I more or less know my rights now and quite aggressively fought for them over the past few weeks. At the same time, I knew that, being quite a challenging client who also doesn’t fit in with the institution’s target population, I’d be at risk of being forcibly kicked out if I became too much of a bother. And I feared the fact that I write on my blog about the institution, even though I don’t name it or any individual workers, would cause the higher-ups to panic. In fact, the substitute behavior specialist already did about half a year ago, but was appeased by my transparency (as in, I literally gave her the link to my blog). The straw that broke…