Yes, I received special treatment. Still do. My responses to your poll is that the special treatment was helpful and that it was also harmful. The special treatment resulted in a dual relationship that has turned out to be significantly helpful and healing for me. Getting to this point did cause some harm though. The confusion the special treatment brought about and the constant fear of having it taken away was so intense it made me suicidal. I know these reasons sound trivial but there is plenty more to it, and, the depths to which the confusion caused me is something I really can't explain in a paragraph or two. And that's not the question posed here anyway.