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Graham Christian wrote:
If you floundered, whack. If you complained bigger wack. If you tapped out through exhaustion whack. His rule was 'you've had enough when I say you have'
Strange as it may seem we liked it and it took us to getting through barriers we were sure we couldn't.
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I'm not going to say your teacher was abusive. I wasn't there. But I will say that this precise attitude is how situations that are abusive continue: the survivors view the experience as strengthening and/or empowering. "That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger."
Katherine