Can we please STOP with the "satanic panic" era aesthetics?

I have seen so many posts and tiktoks of people romanticizing the "satanic panic" era of the 80's and acting like it was a "different time" and being mad at people who warns about the dangers of having witchy aesthetics as a spiritual person.<br><br>I am a survivor of the satanic panic era. I was a toddler when it happened, (born 1982). By the time I was 3 years old, I had already been institutionalized twice.<br><br>The day I was born, my parents were told I had a rare condition and was non-verbal with mild retardation, as I was unable to move, talk, or even cry. After being sent home, my parents found bruises all over my body, and believed I was being satanically ritual abused by my medical caretakers. They did their own research and found therapies that promised to heal me. They were right, I had been abused.<br><br>These therapies consist of hypnosis, physical abuse, isolation, and sleep deprivation. I was diagnosed with MPD, and was subjected to hypnosis, (now called EMDR) which made me more ill. The treatment was worse than anything I had experienced. It would eventually lead to schizophrenia, PTSD, and multiple suicide attempts.<br><br>The satanic panic era killed my childhood. It stole my innocence and my voice, as I was unable to communicate what was happening to me.<br><br>I was eventually institutionalized for a third time at the age of 8, where I was able to speak for the first time, in my own voice. I was able to tell a woman that I was scared, and she was so gentle and believed me, as if I had never been believed before in my life.<br><br>I've spent my entire life healing, trying to learn how to talk and communicate again. And trying to find my own voice.<br><br>What you're romanticizing is not only hurtful and traumatic triggering, but also very disrespectful to the survivors, who went through real satanic ritual abuse of medical abuse, hypnosis, isolation, and sleep deprivation.<br><br>The things I've seen, the memories I've lived, the scars I have, cannot be aesthetics. What you're talking about is abuse, but you're acting like it was a positive thing. <br><br>The satanic panic era killed lives, it destroyed families, it took away the lives of so many innocent people.<br><br>Those of you who's doing this, are perpetuating a culture of abuse and manipulation, and it hurts.<br><br>It hurts that you dont care enough to listen to survivors tell our stories, it hurts that you dont listen to us when we try to talk about it and instead write us off as someone who "hates fun"<br><br>It's not fun, it's not beautiful. It's hell. I was sent to hell, and it was all due to misinformation and misinformation hyped by the media.<br><br>I dont want to ever hear anyone say "there's nothing wrong with being a satanic panic baby". You're being triggering. You're being immature. You're hurting someone's soul.<br><br>Thank you for reading.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>Edit: I dont hate people who have a fascination with true crime and darker aesthetics.<br><br>What I hate is people who READ A BOOK and suddenly claim theyre satanic panic babies and talk about how beautiful and positive it was having grown up in that era. <br><br>I hate how people who are so uninformed, warns others against people who have BEEN THERE, and have LIVED IT.<br><br>&#x200B;