Who by avalanche who by powderStarted listening to podcast The Sunshine Place about #Synanon. I spent three years there (age 7 1/2 - 10 1/2) when my (already divorced) parents moved in. I often refer to my experience there as the defining trauma of my childhood, though later custody battles and disintegrating relationship with my father also can claim places on the medal podia.
For many Synanon really was what saved their lives and credit where it's due. Joe Sam says Check it out.
The Sunshine Place | Cadence13
The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments. Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.