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The Media Got it Wrong

The Media Got it Wrong

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The tendency to portray survivors of trauma, abuse, or cult involvement as either heroic figures or paragons of moral strength

-regardless of their lived reality often arises from media, documentaries, social campaigns, and advocacy groups trying to inspire, simplify, or provide "role models" for audiences. This is stigma is the biggest one surrounding survivors of institutionalized child abuse- the stigma that survivors with voices on main streamed media are all some sort of heroes.

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