Ten Years of Harassment: What I Learned About Who Social Workers Really Are

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Ten Years of Harassment: What I Learned About Who Social Workers Really Are

An Analysis of Pattern Recognition, Institutional Masking, and Lived Exposure to the Child Protection Machine

Filed Under: Long-Term State Harm / Pattern Memory / Bureaucratic Decoding

Author: Noelle Bonnee Annee Simlett

I. Introduction: The Gift of Endurance in the Face of Harassment

After ten years of surveillance, interference, gaslighting, and institutional sabotage, most people collapse.

But I didn’t collapse. I watched. I recorded. I survived long enough to learn the system from the inside out.

And in surviving, I earned something rare:

The ability to see who they really are—and what they’re really doing.

This is not theory. This is pattern-based witnessing. And I’m naming it.

II. Social Workers Are Not Who They Pretend to Be

They are not neutral.

They are not protective.

They are not public servants with benevolent confusion.

They are narrative engineers.

They are emotional extractors.

They are enforcers of institutional control under the language of concern.

What I witnessed over ten years was not a string of “miscommunications.” It was a script.

III. What I Observed Repeatedly: The Behavioral Script of Harm

1. The Visit Begins With Smiles.
   
2. They appear friendly, informal, caring. They are never rude—just vague. Disarming.
3. Then They Take Notes With No Context.
   
4. Observations twisted into concerns.
   
5. Details clipped of meaning.
   
6. Everything said in good faith becomes ammunition in a future report.
7. When You Complain, They Escalate.
   
8. Every protest becomes “hostility.”
   
9. Every question becomes “resistance.”
   
10. Every piece of evidence you submit is ignored or misfiled.
11. When You Go Public, They Retaliate.
    
12. Suddenly:
    
13. PLO letters appear
14. False concerns resurface
15. New assessments begin
16. And the “voluntary” becomes a performance of force
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IV. What They’re Really Doing: Narrative Management and Human Redistribution

They are not helping families.

They are sifting, extracting, reframing, and erasing.

1. They don’t solve problems—they document them.
2. They don’t investigate harm—they create procedural loops that bury it.
3. They don’t build relationships—they perform concern while executing state control.

And when all else fails, they say:

“We’re just following protocol.”

That is their alibi. And it is their shield against moral consequence.

V. Why This Matters

Because when people hear “ten years of social worker involvement,” they assume the problem was me.

But now I know:

It was my clarity that made me a threat.

It was my refusal to collapse that made me a target.

And I’m not telling this story to get sympathy.

I’m telling it because no one should have to survive a decade of surveillance just to prove the system is abusive.

**VI. Conclusion: I Did Not Survive by Complying—

I Survived by Remembering**

I remembered every contradiction.

Every lie.

Every change in tone.

Every report that didn’t match reality.

And now I can say with full authority:

I know who they are.

I know what they’re doing.

And I will never again pretend they mean well.