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, and left without any vertical bonding. This state-enforced horizontal attachment altered their psychological blueprint for life, freezing their identity for belonging, intimacy, and safety.

This very inconvenient reality of 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. 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 on an absolute void. 

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 understanding, we are a tribe without a flag, yet we celebrate our identity with pride. And I'm not alone. There are thousands like me in society. As Tim and Alex framed it:  They are everywhere but nobody knows who they are.

The project