In all the years I have been using the internet I haven't had any problems with cyber bullying until last year. There have been times I have fallen out with people and we've either made up or ignored each other afterwards.
The cyber bullying started on Y!A by someone using the name 'Alice' who claimed to be a natural mother who surrendered a daughter, is married and had a step daughter. She claimed to have some contact with her daughter but it was a mutual decision not to pursue the relationship. 'Alice' claimed that she was going to adopt her step daughter whom she had been a 'mother' too since being married to her father. She also claims to work in the adoption field and her tag line is adoption is a labour of love. Quite quickly she started attacking me claiming I was a liar, I hadn't been coerced and my son didn't want to know me because he knows I'm a liar. 'Alice' also had a follower, 'pocmoz32' that is very possibly an altered ego but I can't prove that. This 'person' was equally annoying in the attacks. It stopped for several months.
Earlier this year it started up again but this time 'Alice' came back as '?' but all the regulars knew who it was because of her tagline. Now, apparantly, the step daughter had died so would explain the silence although there are users who disbelief a lot of what she claims is going on in her life. I have accepted it. Over the past few months the attacks have intensified, been malicious and downright hurtful. I am now a twisted liar, my son went to Canada to run away from me and my lies and I have been caught out on my lies. The final straw was '?' posting links in questions to prove that I have been caught out. The last question was in reference to the first part of the youtube video of the This Morning interview and asking if this was a case of coerced / forced adoption. The interview was about reunion and the subsequent problems we went through. It wasn't about coerced / forced adoption so the interview as no relevence to this types of adoption. It left me in a dreadful state and I kept breaking down over the weekend. Due to the complaints questions have been removed and most of the comments. Only one or two remain.
I was at that point that I wanted to withdraw my presence from online as much as possible. The intention to jack it all in over speaking out about adoption was a very real intention. I was on a virtual nervous breakdown and only stopped myself from overdosing because we had our friends children over. That was my life saver! Since then I have had so much support that it has been overwhelming. I will be eternally thankful to everybody who has supported me over the past few days. You all deserve a medal and a huge 'thank you' from me
I stay far, far, far away from YA! Can't stomach it there. I think half the time, it's an agency there to spin a better light on adoption -- very afraid of losing those cash cow babies....
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