Lei Chao's story on the Gardners

The Gardner Family is not who you think they are
My name is anonymous so I will be calling myself A and my sister B

I lived with the Gardners alongside my twin sister as foster children from when we were 12 after my first week at another foster home didn’t go well until we turned 17.

My foster ‘sister’ Penelope was a spoiled and ableist cunt who thinks the physically disabled, autistics and the mentally ill (like myself, Anti social personality disorder/Sociopathy) belong in group homes and institutions, she and her parents refused to listen to reason from someone from CPS that I was mentally ill.

Gareth is a racist asshole who banned me and my sister from speaking in Cantonese (Our first and most common language).

My sister was denied treatment for her endometriosis which was diagnosed and they even refused to take advice from a doctor and sent her to school in agonizing pain.

Gareth and Jennifer used food deprivation as a torture and discipline method where I would be denied meals for as long as they felt, from two days to a whole week.

I ended up developing an eating disorder as a result of this and I was very gangly for a teenage boy and I was twenty pounds underweight, it led to frequent hospitalizations and health checks.

And Jennifer is a manipulative bitch who duped the foster care that nothing was wrong.

Me and my sister were looked down upon, condescended to and everything, Gareth did not take my mental health seriously at all, anything given to me as a gift was pawned for money.

And let it be known they only cared about money

One time when I was 14, Jennifer’s sister Alexia left her daughter Megan with us despite her father’s protests that I was not to be left alone with her (Alexia’s husband Georgie is one of the few people I liked) because of my mental health issues and other factors including watching slasher horror films, I gave Megan nightmares after I watched Halloween (1978), Last what I heard, she’s in prison for assault and murder.

Now, when I was 14, I had the habit of cutting newspaper sections out on the Columbine High School massacre because I could barely feel a fucking thing when it happened, no happiness, no sadness and no anger.

Gareth beat me with an electrical cord after I cut some newspapers and laminated them, he would beat me for everything including not buying Penelope the right clothing or toys when she was younger.

When we were in high school, Penelope was not a well-performing student while despite my constant hospitalizations, I was a good student by all accounts aswell as bright.

Gareth and Jennifer would blame all of Penelope’s behavioral issues in school which were bullying classmates, failing exams and stealing and denied that she was badly behaved.

Going on that trip to Orlando, Florida for the summer was the first time in years I felt like a regular human being, a teenager if you will. when all summer, I didn’t face the threat of abuse and starvation and Gareth not going into my room to beat me.