Help Me Not Be Forced Into Conversion Therapy
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Pic is of a fern that I found, my family actually uses the internet and I think it'll be pretty obvious here in a minute why I want to remain as anonymous as possible.
Update 29 March: Original goal met and exceeded! Eval scheduled for April 10th! Got fired because of this bs, more on that in the update section, so upped the goal from the original $14k to compensate;;; I was planning to work right up until I bugged out and budgeted for that;;;
Update 12 March: Legal fees are all going to be covered and I have a lawyer, fully pro-bono- IF I can get the eval in time!
One of my uncles is a lawyer, and is helping my mother through the process of having me declared mentally incompetent so that she can force me into "Reparative Therapy", which is literally just rebranded conversion therapy. The initial petition has been filed. I don't have a court date yet, but two months from now is a good estimate.
While getting me into conversion therapy is the main point of all of this, she will have full control over my health care, finances, and where I live. It is almost impossible for the ward to contest guardianship at any point afterwards because they cannot legally enter into contracts with anyone. I need to get proof of competency for my laywer to work with and get out of this house ASAP or I'm screwed in a big way.
As this has been asked about a few times: all donations are being deposited in an account managed by my late fiance's brother, so if we don't raise enough for the eval on time, the funds will still be used to contest the initial judgement on my behalf. My mother will never be able to touch any of it.
Yes, I am asking for a large amount of money! There's good reason for it, though.
A full psychological evaluation runs about $6000 in my area. That’ll be out of pocket entirely. This is a REQUIREMENT. I have to have this and the testimony from an expert- and hoo boy that isn’t exactly cheap right there either, google says $500ish an hour- to combat the falsified one and false testimony from the people my mother will be bribing or whatever she’s doing.
That’ll basically bring it to a stalemate. That could get real messy real fast [and it SHOULD] because it’s basically he-said-she-said and having to dig around on both sides and it’ll end up all dragged out and protracted and nasty.
Moving will place the odds much more firmly in my favor. That’s proof I can live independently, proof I can function adequately without supervision without harming myself, proof that I can handle working & supporting myself without an overseer micromanaging things for me. That wouldn’t hold it’s own against a fake eval, but paired with a legitimate eval, both giving each other credence, it will enough, 100% guarantee there.
The cost to moving, though? Places that’ll let me bring my dogs will run high. Going for a rental, figure around $3k for first & last month’s rent. Pet deposits can range from anywhere from $50 to $500 each. Gotta move all my stuff [and the brats have more than I do, they’re spoiled as all hell], it’ll fit in a van or truck- without the dogs in it, so that means a van or truck with a trailor OR two separate vehicles. I was advised that a minimum of ten hours’ drive out would be sufficient, but further is ideal. Let’s stick to ten hours, and then I’m gonna knock that down to 9.5 because that’s what I got it to on google maps and I’m stressed and not willing to dig for an exact ten- that’s 652 miles. Let’s assume one vehicle with a trailer, probably 20 miles to the gallon towing like that? So 652 miles by 20 mpg is 32.6 gallons, at $2.90 per that’s $95 just for gas? That doesn’t include renting the vehicle and/or trailer, and really, for safety purposes I should probably be using a moving company- no one in the family will make a scene with the movers in that scenario, that’s the wrong kind of scene to raise [because pulling this shit makes SO much more sense, right?]. That’d probably run around a grand right there, and I’d still need to get me & the dogs to wherever.
And then there’s all the immediately required stuff like getting the puppers registered, and an accurate ID for me, and food & utilities for a month or two until I can snag literally any job until I scrape up enough to get my business license and all that for the new location. I can live off $20 a month for food, but the dogs go through closer to $50 a month on the cheapest stuff I can find without risking their health. Utilities shouldn’t be much, less than $150 for sure [because I’ll be on hard conservation mode even while cleaning & settling in because everything is expensive!!!]. That’s over $500 right there, potentially closer to $700 depending on how much it will be to get the boys registered.
In the event there does turn out to be excess after all of this is over, it will be donated to the Family Acceptance Project, an initiative that helps educate parents & other family members so they don't reject, ostracize, or send their own kids to conversion therapy like my mother is doing.
Update 29 March: Original goal met and exceeded! Eval scheduled for April 10th! Got fired because of this bs, more on that in the update section, so upped the goal from the original $14k to compensate;;; I was planning to work right up until I bugged out and budgeted for that;;;
Update 12 March: Legal fees are all going to be covered and I have a lawyer, fully pro-bono- IF I can get the eval in time!
One of my uncles is a lawyer, and is helping my mother through the process of having me declared mentally incompetent so that she can force me into "Reparative Therapy", which is literally just rebranded conversion therapy. The initial petition has been filed. I don't have a court date yet, but two months from now is a good estimate.
While getting me into conversion therapy is the main point of all of this, she will have full control over my health care, finances, and where I live. It is almost impossible for the ward to contest guardianship at any point afterwards because they cannot legally enter into contracts with anyone. I need to get proof of competency for my laywer to work with and get out of this house ASAP or I'm screwed in a big way.
As this has been asked about a few times: all donations are being deposited in an account managed by my late fiance's brother, so if we don't raise enough for the eval on time, the funds will still be used to contest the initial judgement on my behalf. My mother will never be able to touch any of it.
Yes, I am asking for a large amount of money! There's good reason for it, though.
A full psychological evaluation runs about $6000 in my area. That’ll be out of pocket entirely. This is a REQUIREMENT. I have to have this and the testimony from an expert- and hoo boy that isn’t exactly cheap right there either, google says $500ish an hour- to combat the falsified one and false testimony from the people my mother will be bribing or whatever she’s doing.
That’ll basically bring it to a stalemate. That could get real messy real fast [and it SHOULD] because it’s basically he-said-she-said and having to dig around on both sides and it’ll end up all dragged out and protracted and nasty.
Moving will place the odds much more firmly in my favor. That’s proof I can live independently, proof I can function adequately without supervision without harming myself, proof that I can handle working & supporting myself without an overseer micromanaging things for me. That wouldn’t hold it’s own against a fake eval, but paired with a legitimate eval, both giving each other credence, it will enough, 100% guarantee there.
The cost to moving, though? Places that’ll let me bring my dogs will run high. Going for a rental, figure around $3k for first & last month’s rent. Pet deposits can range from anywhere from $50 to $500 each. Gotta move all my stuff [and the brats have more than I do, they’re spoiled as all hell], it’ll fit in a van or truck- without the dogs in it, so that means a van or truck with a trailor OR two separate vehicles. I was advised that a minimum of ten hours’ drive out would be sufficient, but further is ideal. Let’s stick to ten hours, and then I’m gonna knock that down to 9.5 because that’s what I got it to on google maps and I’m stressed and not willing to dig for an exact ten- that’s 652 miles. Let’s assume one vehicle with a trailer, probably 20 miles to the gallon towing like that? So 652 miles by 20 mpg is 32.6 gallons, at $2.90 per that’s $95 just for gas? That doesn’t include renting the vehicle and/or trailer, and really, for safety purposes I should probably be using a moving company- no one in the family will make a scene with the movers in that scenario, that’s the wrong kind of scene to raise [because pulling this shit makes SO much more sense, right?]. That’d probably run around a grand right there, and I’d still need to get me & the dogs to wherever.
And then there’s all the immediately required stuff like getting the puppers registered, and an accurate ID for me, and food & utilities for a month or two until I can snag literally any job until I scrape up enough to get my business license and all that for the new location. I can live off $20 a month for food, but the dogs go through closer to $50 a month on the cheapest stuff I can find without risking their health. Utilities shouldn’t be much, less than $150 for sure [because I’ll be on hard conservation mode even while cleaning & settling in because everything is expensive!!!]. That’s over $500 right there, potentially closer to $700 depending on how much it will be to get the boys registered.
In the event there does turn out to be excess after all of this is over, it will be donated to the Family Acceptance Project, an initiative that helps educate parents & other family members so they don't reject, ostracize, or send their own kids to conversion therapy like my mother is doing.
Organizer
John Smith
Organizer
Cataula, GA
