In the 1960s, children entrusted to the care of the Dutch state were governed by a brutal regime. Babies and toddlers were forcibly torn from their mothers and locked inside cold  residential institutions ( like Helper Haven in Groningen), and deliberately left without any vertical bonding. This state-enforced horizontal attachment (implemented by forms of experimental 'therapy' aimed at babies) altered their psychological blueprint for life, freezing their identity for belonging, intimacy, and safety. This was not incident, like the government wants society to believe, this became a lifelong impact on all terrains of identity.

The very inconvenient reality of attachment outside the biological calendar -a lifelong blueprint of attachment to peers from childhood, deliberately concealed by the state to hide their responsibility, is however a healthy, normal reaction to an insane system imposed on the most vulnerable children, taken from their mothers and homes. Cowardly, to avoid their responsibility and accountability, the state responds with great hostility, gaslighting and victim blaming on the victims of  forced peer oriented attachment, leaving them in an absolute void as easy prey for society. 

Pride

From ignorance, this frozen blueprint is regarded as 'wrong', 'deviant' and even 'criminal'' and generally rejected.  Completely excluded from society's modern concepts of inclusivity and fiversity and understanding, we are a tribe without a flag, yet we celebrate our identity with pride. And I'm not alone. There are many thousands like me in society all over the world thAt were not born this way, but nade this way for life.  As Tim and Alex framed it:  They are everywhere but nobody knows who they are.

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