1982...1982?!?!?! Holy fuck Edit: this comment blew up and I feel obligated to clarify: I was shocked the photo was said to be from 1982, simply because it looks much older. It's black and white, the radiator, everything screamed a time much earlier to me. That's all I meant by my comment. I find it very interesting how many assumptions were made from such a vague comment. As a psychology major and a former EMT, I have a lot of knowledge and first hand experience with what countless people found necessary to point out to me, some rudely - a brief history of how mentally ill and challenged people have been, and sometimes still are, mistreated.
It’s still hard to understand how a full 100 years after [the investigative reporting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_in_a_Mad-House) by Nellie Bly similar institutions could still exist in the country... Edit: wasn’t Kennedy’s sister lobotomized at an early age?
She was an adult, 23 years old. Her father had her lobotomized becuase he was worried her behaviour could put shame on the family. He didn't inform her mother or the rest of the family until after the procedure failed.
Failed? I guess she was in a vegetative state and had lost the ability to speak? That’s the expected result I thought... Did he have legal guardianship over her? How did he never get in trouble because of this?
Lobotomies had a huge range of outcomes. Everything from death to a perfectly functional human. It's one of the crazy things about the human brain and something I don't think we will ever understand since its a pretty barbaric subject to research.
There is a ton of research still going on, but today it doesn't include opening the skull and making purposeful injuries.
其实现在相关的研究还多着呢,只不过现在的法子不用再打开脑壳搞那种人为损伤了。
UncleTogie33 赞2020/4/21
Man, you do not want to look into hemispherectomies then....
伙计,那你可千万别去搜什么大脑半球切除术……
tanstaafl9042 赞2020/4/21
>Hemispherectomy is a very rare neurosurgical procedure in which a cerebral hemisphere (half of the brain) is removed, disconnected, or disabled. This procedure is used to treat a variety of seizure disorders where the source of the epilepsy is localized to a broad area of a single hemisphere of the brain, notably Rasmussen's encephalitis. - wikipedia I'd say this is much more precise and a very specific use procedure, as opposed to just blindly cutting and hoping it worked.
Considering that only around 20% of the kids having the procedure done end up as functioning adults, I'm not convinced.
考虑到只有约20%接受该手术的孩子长大后能成为功能健全的成年人,我对此持怀疑态度。
ImOnlyHereToKillTime20 赞2020/4/20
Because back then, it was a legit medical procedure and no, the result of hers was never the intended outcome, nor was it with that procedure in general.
It often made things worse, not better. Loss of personality, intellect, impulse control and an inability to function independently were the most common outcomes.
And she had behavioral problems because she was deprived of oxygen at birth. Because when her mother went into labor, the nurse held the mom's legs closed until the doctor arrived.
而且她有行为问题是因为她出生时缺氧。因为她妈妈分娩时,护士硬是把她妈妈的双腿合住,直到医生赶到。
EleventyTwatWaffles33 赞2020/4/20
Yeah and lived until she was 86.
是啊,而且她还活到了86岁。
unknownsoldier918 赞2020/4/21
That almost makes the story sadder.
那简直让这个故事听起来更悲伤了。
MangoCats17 赞2020/4/21
No almost about it. Prolonged suffering with zero hope of recovery is never good.
这哪是“简直”,根本就是。长期受苦却毫无康复希望,这绝对不是什么好事。
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Doobz8722 赞2020/4/21
Thank you for doing what you do. As someone with wheels for legs, what you do for us can be absolutely life changing. Aside from that, you are absolutely correct. I've been in and out of care facilities and nursing homes for years and the shit that goes on in any given facility that takes care of physically or mentally limited people can be plain old scummy. I've had plenty of my own firsthand experiences with too many people that shouldn't be in healthcare.
It's important to notice that not everyone would have let their autistic kids be treated like that, just because it was 1982. The greatest problem for those kids was not actually their time, but their families. Institutions that give such kind of "treatment" are increasingly rare but still exist. Unfortunately, some families are still willing to intern their "problem" kids in institutions that do that, to get rid of them. If they can't find one, then they may alternatively just abuse them at home.
It's often not a free choice to institutionalize. My mom once had a friend who had to give up her son once he hit puberty and got physically stronger than her. He'd have probably killed her eventually during one of his fits. He was abused once institutionalized. She eventually killed herself. Mom thinks that knowing her son was being abused and being unable to do anything about it was the main reason.
My assumption is that my own son with either be with us until we die, or in a home where he can be watched after if his behavior becomes a liability. Only time will tell, but I know that my son will never live independently. Either way don't let the posts about mild autism being a gift fool you: this sort of thing (profound autism) is an unalloyed tragedy for an entire family.
I'm mildly autistic. My aunt works with severely autistic kids. I see your struggle. Sorry. Give the kid love. I know you do. Keep him around if you can. My sister lives in a managed care facility, and even though it's a nice one, it's still hellish for her. My dad just has no choice at this point. Sorry you've gotta go through this. Be strong. One love
I appreciate it. Its our hope that our son can one day live as independent a life as is humanly possible. He's getting the best care and support he can right now given that we have decent insurance and services around. We take it day by day.
> Only time will tell, but I know that my son will never live independently. We have two, one really severe and the other just barely able to attend normal school - aged 19 and 15. We're pretty sure about the olde severe one never living independently, but in the 17 years since he first regressed the only truly predictable thing about his future has been its unpredictability. Didn't potty train until 7, flawless until 12 and off and on since then... Hardly spoke more than one word an hour until age 8, not only won but earned "best reader at morning meeting" in his normal K-2 classroom. Progressively more aggressive and difficult behavior through puberty until about 6 months ago. Super self-restricted diet until he was about 10, then suddenly he would eat anything mom put in front of him, until about 15 now he's on-again off-again with the picky eating. We established guardian-advocacy for him with the court when he turned 18, long term our real goal is to find him some kind of support network for after when we're gone. Local institutional housing for his needs (including extreme tendency to elope long distances), is basically jail, and at his level not a nice jail either.
There was a news story a few years ago about an institutionalized setting for special needs adults that used (and abused) shock-delivering devices to control the special needs adults. At first glance, that's awful. Your immediate reaction is "how could anyone do that?" and it is, objectively, awful. At the same time, what do you do with a bunch of 20-30 year old adult males who are very strong but have the cognitive ability and impulse control of toddlers combined with extreme behavioral problems? While shocking the shit out of them is clearly inhumane treatment, what is the alternative? Restraining them? Assigning 4 strong adult men to monitor them at all times? Sedating them? Putting them unrestrained in padded rooms 20+ hours a day? Those are serious questions. It's easy to say "well the way this is being done is awful" but it's so much harder to come up with actual solutions. What do you do with an adult who is more than physically capable of murdering any social worker or nurse sent to attend to them, but has no moral culpability or self-control because they are effectively 3 years old?
I'm autistic, so I was a challenging child. My sister is autistic, schizoaffective disorder, and she had a stroke in utero causing her to be effectively braindead on one side, among other issues. Basically she acts out constantly, and while intelligent enough, has the emotional and mental capacity for logic and critical thinking of a 5 year old. She acted out constantly, and despite hundreds of thousands of dollars and the best specialists it took until she was 18 to diagnose the stroke and brain damage that happened before she was born. Anyhow, she was completely unmanageable, and my parents were forced to put her is a residential care facility. They tried bringing her home a few times, and it was possible for brief periods of a few months while my mom was alive. After she passed away, my dad moved away, and tried to take my sister with him, but it was too much to deal with, and he had to put her back in a managed care facility. I guess the point of this story is that everyone's circumstances are different, and those kids who were left in these horrible places didn't deserve this treatment. On the other hand, I understand the position of the parents. Being totally lost, helpless, confused, and frustrated. Unable to work or take care of your other kids because this one demands so much attention. I can see how, especially before the internet and the proliferation of information how scared and frustrated parents might believe it better to leave their kids with experts and other kids like their own. I'm not saying it's not misguided. I just understand both sides
Careful when you discuss what some families are driven to when they have a child with intense special needs. In some cases an institution is best for these children. Source: The parent of an autistic child with very high support needs. PS If you think that parents are only thinking of themselves when dealing with such a child, keep in mind that there are often neurotypical kids in the same family who suffer greatly both at the hands of their siblings, and from a deprivation of attention given that their parents must spend the vast majority of their time dealing with the autistic child.
> If you think that parents are only thinking of themselves when dealing with such a child, keep in mind that there are often neurotypical kids in the same family who suffer greatly both at the hands of their siblings A friend of mine grew up with a severely autistic younger brother that was built like a college football player. She said she was terrified of him every day and would have panic attacks when her parents would leave to run errands and she was home alone with him.
Lebanon in 1982 was in the middle of a war, which may have affected care provision somewhat...
1982 年的黎巴嫩正处于战争之中,这多多少少可能影响了当时的护理条件……
ChuckleKnuckles947 赞2020/4/20
Context, context, context. It's essential but often hidden away, even though people seem to rarely look for it.
背景,背景,还是背景。这东西极其重要,但往往被藏在角落里,尽管人们好像很少会去主动查证。
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Gravity_flip533 赞2020/4/21
If a war is going on... And you need to secure some children... And if those children pose a chance of hurting themselves even when there isn't a war... Honestly straight jacketing them to a radiator seems like the best means of ensuring no loss of life given the situation described.
I would be amazed if these conditions were because of the war. Historically, institutional treatment has been terrifying. In Canada, there was an institution named Woodlands that closed in 1996. Same conditions as this photo, regardless of war or peace. It only closed due to the outcry of families.
Yeah dude not sure where in the world you are from but I am a DSW in Australia and some of the older clients I have used to be in such institutions. One of my old dudes was repeatedly raped and beaten at an institute on the Central Coast before being moved to a slightly better institute at Stockton. The abuse continued at Stockton until that place began to be shut down. It's still there today but there's only a couple clients left in Stockton and they are trying to integrate them into other services.
I also remember reading about something called Laundries in Ireland where they took women called Magdalene. It was run by Roman Catholics and they used used these women to wash people's clothes for profit. One little thing I'm forgetting, there was also mass Graves in the backs of these places for the dead kids that were never acknowledged until later on.
Also a lot of women in the Laundries were not disabled, they'd had a child out of wedlock and were therefore shunned from society.
另外,洗衣房里的很多女性其实并没有残疾,只是因为未婚先孕,就被社会给排挤了。
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cheap_dates20 赞2020/4/21
My grandmother only went to the 6th grade but she had a good job during The Great Depression (US). She was a cook in a state mental hospital. They made over 800 meals a day. They tore that hospital down in the late 1970's. My grandmother always wondered what they were going to do with all the patients? I work four blocks from a huge homeless camp and about a mile from the city jail. Grandma, a lot of them ended up here.
What do you want to know? It was an institution in which those with disabilities were placed and abused. It lasted for many decades and had other similar institutions nearby, so it wasn't exactly unique (Tranquille in Kamloops for example). Families and other advocates with disabilities lead to its closure in the nineties and the upswing of the community living movement in BC of today.
There are much better and safer ways to secure children. For fucks sake if you're worried about them hurting themselves you would strap them to a hot metal pipe?
I'm guessing it's not on. Lebanon during daylight hours is hot.
我猜那管子又没开。黎巴嫩白天热得很。
pupi_but38 赞2020/4/21
If soldiers are shooting and bombs are going off and the kids are freaking out and hurting themselves and others and you don't have access to proper facilities and you have 100 other kids to care for and not enough staff and you don't want them to run outside and get blasted with a mortar? You still wouldn't do it? What would you do then?
Well, not knowing about autism is one thing. Sure. But when you find yourself chaining children to radiators, you're probably the baddie. This was the case in 1982 as well. Hence the photo.
That's like the wildest thing about neurology and psychology that everyone forgets--it's so new. Obviously, this (the situation in the photo) sucks and of course here in 2020, we know that this is abusive, dangerous, and damaging to people with mental illness, and/or people who are radically neurodivergent. But even in 1982, they really didn't know much at all compared to what we, even as laypeople, do today. If someone is behaving in an extremely abnormal and dangerous way, if they are a danger to themselves and others, if you can't figure out the cause of their illness, or treat it, what options are you left with? The remains of more ancient cultural and religious norms around the world, that is to say, the demonization (literally) of those neurodivergent people, or those with mental illness, is still prevalent. We have political and social structures that until relatively recently really didn't give two s**ts about individual human lives (thanks for starting to fix that John Locke!), and economic systems that follow suite (looking at you late stage capitalism). This was horrible, but it's sadly not surprisingly. I still don't think you can look at this and judge these children's caretakers the same way you would (rightly!) judge anyone doing this now, in 2020, when we know way more about and do way better at mental health care.
>Not Spain, according to this website Well, by reddit's standards OP has shown impressive dedication to the truth by getting the autistic kids in an asylum part right. It's even in countries on the same sea.
Just a hop, skip, and a 2000 nautical mile voyage.
不过是蹦跶两下、跳两步,再加个两千海里的航程罢了。
Gravity_flip16 赞2020/4/21
An ad for Disney plus came up while I was scrolling through those psych ward photos... Wtf...
我刷那些精神病院照片的时候,竟然弹出来个 Disney Plus 的广告……搞什么鬼……
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I saw this documentary about autism where the child at the focus of the doc was severely autistic and could not speak at all. They found a way for him to communicate through text to voice and he conveyed that he is smart and understands everything, but can't physically communicate his thoughts. I realized the true torture of being unable to communicate and being underestimated. Update: Far From The Tree is the name of the documentary. It's on Hulu. I got some of the details wrong, but the heart of comment is true.
我看过一部关于自闭症的纪录片,片中主角是个重度自闭症儿童,完全没法说话。后来他们找到了一种方法,让他通过文字转语音进行交流,结果他表达出自己其实很聪明,什么都懂,只是身体上无法表达自己的想法。我当时才意识到,无法沟通且一直被别人低估,简直是真正的折磨。
更新:那部纪录片叫《远于树》(Far From The Tree),在 Hulu 上能看。虽然我有些细节记错了,但评论的核心意思是一样的。
Cheezeuse_Crust226 赞2020/4/20
can you tell us what documentary is it?
你能告诉我们这是哪部纪录片吗?
TinyTownFamily303 赞2020/4/21
I have a similar situation with my son. He cannot talk and he doesn’t interact much. You might be inclined to think nothing much was going on in his head, but then we discovered something that elicits an interaction and shows how capable he is at 3-years-old: 20-second video: https://youtu.be/IP2z6W8WZPc 1-minute 50-seconds of him showing his reading abilities: https://youtu.be/L3zzSb0sUvU
That is remarkable. I'm a 25 year old with decent public-education knowledge and I had trouble reading the names of the shapes. If you dont mind, I'm actually really intrigued by this and have a few questions! In the second video you posted - when he puts the names to the shapes - around the 1:25 second mark there is a clicking, is he making this sound? If so, is this his main form of communication? And secondly, is this genius-level knowledge strictly to reading/shapes? I apologize if i come off as insensitive or offensive!
There's another video on his channel which reveals that the "clicking noise" is the child grinding his teeth, likely as a form of stimulus. He hasn't latched onto any alternative they have provided yet, despite the likely pain the grinding produces.
As a person who has spent years working on my issues with grinding my teeth (as a result of stress rather than autism), that familiar sound made my stomach turn. It’s absolutely grinding and it can really cause a lot of expensive dental and even sinus problems.
Fucking fascinating. The human brain truly is as mysterious as the universe.
真他妈的神奇。人类大脑确实和宇宙一样充满了未解之谜。
TinyTownFamily43 赞2020/4/21
I completely agree. When my son withdrew into his bubble, I had to figure out a way back in, a way to re-establish a connection with him. That moment came when he showed an interest in the flash cards that I was using with my daughter. We bought all kinds of flash cards and found that he would pay attention to shapes and letters. We were able to slowly build a new connection using the shapes and letters. Then he started to exceed what I knew...he learned all the shapes I knew and I had to learn more in order to keep teaching him. He would bring very large word flash cards to me...I even bought college prep flash cards. Then he started bringing me words in different languages...I had to tell him that I didn’t know those words...he stopped bringing them to me and would watch YouTube videos about other languages. He can do all of that...but he cannot talk...he doesn’t understand how “yes” or “no” work (I imagine that is because they are abstract and conditional)...he is terrified to try foods other than store-brand Cheerios or waffles. It is very intriguing. Hopefully in the future society will be better able to gather such information from many individuals and find enlightening information.
That's insanely intriguing how one can understand so much but have trouble communicating it. You sound like a good parent, allowing him to reach his full potential to the best of your ability. I feel that technology has been and will continue to open up a lot of alternative mediums of communication and accessibility that would hopefully be helpful to individuals like your son. It's definitely an area our society needs to push progress in.
I don’t know if he is savant level, but he can read any word I present to him on a flash card, even when I try to trick him. We have one video where the therapist and I are wrong about the name of a shape...multiple times...and my son keeps trying to correct us in his own subtle way. At the end of the video we realize that we were wrong. 2-minutes long: https://youtu.be/Bj_0SvwZ8q8 What I find interesting is that our “authority” is irrelevant to him...he knows he is correct...he is just going to let us figure out that we are in fact...wrong. LOL!
Far From the Tree. It's on Hulu right now and it is very good.
《远离族群》(Far From the Tree)。现在Hulu上能看,真的非常棒。
munchies112297 赞2020/4/21
My ex brother in law is severely, non verbally autistic. He would get violent sometimes.
I couldn't help but wonder if it's because he's fully aware, not able to communicate. It doesn't help they don't take him out often, because he can get violent. But is it a self fulfilling prophecy? Idk man. Wasn't my place to say or judge.
Being non verbal must be the most frustrating thing in the world. Does he have an SLP or SLT?
无法用言语表达一定这世上最让人抓狂的事了。他有安排语言治疗师(SLP/SLT)吗?
munchies112227 赞2020/4/21
I'm not even sure what those terms mean, my dude. I'm not entirely sure on the details of his condition
兄弟,我甚至都不知道这些术语是啥意思。我对他具体的病情也不太了解。
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Speech and language pathologist/therapist. Someone to help him find a means of communication.
言语治疗师/语言病理学家。就是那种能帮他找到沟通方式的人。
munchies112232 赞2020/4/21
they did pursue some sort of therapy, but unfortunately it was a scam. my ex's family got taken for a few hundred. They didn't have a whole lot of money as it was. That coupled with the newly found distrust, they didn't want to pursue further treatments. It's a shitty situation all around :/
Yep. If you talk to people who are on the spectrum but are verbal, they talk about experiencing something called sensory overload where lights, sounds and sensations can be physically painful. The non verbal autistic folk, the ones that appear "unintelligent" are mostly likely in constant, severe sensory overload, making it almost impossible to communicate. They aren't unintelligent. They're people just like us with a brain that makes the physical world a very painful experience.
By friend’s father in law had a stroke a few years ago and that’s basically how he is now. Still there mentally, understands everything, but can’t physically say this thoughts very well. Knows what he wants to say, but just can’t. He gets very upset a lot and gets mean. It’s awful.
It's like their life wasn't hard enough already, so they punish them like this.
就好像他们生活得还不够艰难似的,非要搞出这种事来折磨他们。
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kharmatika25 赞2020/4/21
Probably less of a punishment and more of a “stay put” measure. Still torture though, however unintentional. As someone with severe sensory overload issues (I may be on the spectrum, I can’t afford testing), not only is this barbaric for any human being, but radiators are loud, hot, and shaky. I can’t imagine a worse thing for a child with sensory disorders to be tied to. Many spectrum kids explore the world less with their eyes and more with other sensory organs like their hands and mouth. I can’t imagine the amount of burns that could have resulted from this if it was on.
Years ago when my grandmother was still alive, my family was watching a documentary about a young girl with what I believe was autism. She was non verbal. I remember she was obsessed with playing in water with a spoon. Through whatever therapy she was going through she was able to use a device to put together words. It turned out she was extremely intelligent. She couldn't speak and had difficulties managing her limbs, but she was just as aware as anyone else. My grandmother was really taken in by it, because she said when she was younger no one would have ever known that this girl was mentally fine. They would have just locked her away. I just think of all the people who have suffered because they couldn't express themselves like your average person. How terrible.
wondering if someone will know the documentary, if so i'd like to watch it
有没有人知道这是哪部纪录片?如果有人知道的话,我想去看看。
SirHammyTheGreat356 赞2020/4/20
The historical treatment of mentally ill and differently/disabled people is heartbreaking. Even as someone who *only* suffers from depression and anxiety, I'm l really lucky to have been born into the privileged life I have.
Bro I fucking feel you on that. My sister is pretty moderately disabled and I feel blessed everyday that she is alive and where she is at now this day in age then the past. Also that my mental health issues aren’t as bad as what they could be.
In Finland people who suffered from melancholia of the mind were sent to asylums for electricity shock treatments back in the day....
在芬兰,以前那些患有精神忧郁症的人会被送进精神病院,接受电击疗法……
_Kode26 赞2020/4/20
Electric shocks are still used today for cases of severe depression and are considered one of the most effective forms of treatment..
电击疗法至今仍用于治疗重度抑郁症,而且被认为是目前最有效的治疗方式之一。
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Yeah, but they (usually) require informed consent now.
是啊,但现在(通常)得先征得病人知情同意才行。
droidorat304 赞2020/4/20
As a father of an autistic son, it breaks my heart..
作为一个自闭症孩子的父亲,看到这些真的让我心碎……
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As another human this breaks my heart
作为一个普通人,这也让我感到无比心碎。
droidorat45 赞2020/4/20
Cheers to that. Sadly there are still many of those who make memes using autism. These people need to see pictures like this and get a proper education
Has my brain broken? I can't decipher that second sentence's meaning.
是我脑子坏了吗?我怎么看不太懂这第二句到底是啥意思。
Messiadbunny47 赞2020/4/21
I think roughly "It was a good documentary that exposes issues without making you feel sad after watching. "
我觉得大概意思是:“这是一部好纪录片,既揭露了问题,又不会让你在看完后感到难过。”
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ooohhhh. Just flip "buy" to "but". Thanks. 🤣
哦哦哦。只要把 “buy”(买)改成 “but”(但是)就行了。谢啦。🤣
Yes-She-is-mine92 赞2020/4/20
When I was 6 or 7 (in the late 80s/early 90s), we went to the beach and rode the fair rides one night. When the ride stopped (it was those huge swings), anyone who was able to, unbuckled the strap and ran off. As I was running to meet my mom, I heard a boy with Down Syndrome yelling for help. He was kind of freaked out so I stopped running, unbuckled his strap and helped him down. As we were leaving, his Grandmom stopped me and was so emotional and thankful. With tears in her eyes, she thanked me for helping her grandson and told me I was a really sweet girl. I remember feeling uncomfortable because of how emotional and appreciative she was and because she stopped to tell me but didn't say a word to my mom. This tiny moment as a child has affected my life to the point where I still remember their faces 30 years later and looking at this picture reminds me of them somehow. If this picture was taken in 1982, I understand why helping her grandson made her so emotional and it makes me really sad.
I worked with severely and often times dangerous children and I have an advanced degree in autism services. The kids no one sees are often forgotten about. Extreme outburst, setting fires, breaking everything, attacking pets and siblings happens all the time. Severely impacted kids are also in real danger from predator adults who knows nonverbal kids can’t tell. Proper mental institution, who treat everyone with actual care are desperately needed, the burden on families is immeasurable, and the desperate decision to institutionalize a child is heart breaking to witness, even when it’s the best thing.
1982?!? People live to their 70s-80s, that’s not even one person ago.
1982年?!? 人们都能活到70多80多岁,那甚至还没过完一个人的一辈子呢。
1knightstands62 赞2020/4/20
This is an odd way of understanding how long ago something was
这对时间的感知方式还挺怪的。
TexBarry28 赞2020/4/20
Joe Rogan has a good bit about this. Talking about how people live to be 80 or 90 or so. And how the revolutionary war was only three people ago.
Joe Rogan 有个段子讲的就是这事儿。他说人们活到八九十岁,而美国独立战争其实也就隔了三代人而已。
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Autistic person here.
You’ll never hear me say I was born in the wrong generation.
本人自闭症患者。
你永远不会听到我说什么“我生错了时代”这种话。
polyglotpinko31 赞2020/4/21
As an autistic adult, I was not expecting this photo and frankly almost had a panic attack looking at it. I was nonverbal until I was 9. But thank god, I had parents who knew I was intelligent, and presumed my competence (not sitting back and thinking I didn't need help - helping me in a way that actually took my learning style into account). I'm in my 30s now, with a doctoral level degree and a job. It's not a great job, but I'm underemployed because people hear I'm autistic and make excuses not to hire me, not because I can't work. So I take what I can get. I'm a human being like anyone else, and autism is part of my identity. It's not a disease; it's not something to be eradicated and tortured out of a child the way so many do. Talking about "curing autism" would be like curing my brown hair. And this - and the comments, good *Christ*, ugh - only remind me just how goddamn far we have to go.
Confined movement, inability to regulate temperature, strange noises, forced social contact... Looks like an awesome way to torture autistic kids. Then there's me who freaks out because my t-shirt is too tight
“Because he’s the grapist, that’s how he grapes people!”
“因为他是强奸犯,他就是这么强奸人的!”
Garagedog5112 赞2020/4/21
I understand that there's context to be considered for this photo. However, I taught first grade and had a boy who is on the autistic spectrum in my class that looks exactly like the boy on the right. He is currently in high school (grade 10) with my son and is such a wonderful boy. They've been on the same baseball team, been partners in science labs, and will often hang out in school together. It saddens me that, no matter the context of the time, that this could have been him tied to a radiator.
OP didn’t post any source and multiple commenters are saying this wasn’t in Spain, nor was it in the 80’s. For the sake of quality in this sub, can a mod please look into this?
As empty as the sentiment is, this absolutely breaks my heart.
这话听着虽然空洞,但真心让我心碎。
BringOrnTheNukekkai8 赞2020/4/20
Jesus christ! Is this the treatment where they tie you up and yell "STOP BEING AUTISTIC!"?
天哪!这所谓的疗法就是把人绑起来,然后对着你吼“别再自闭了!”吗?
Archangel13136 赞2020/4/21
Thought the headline said "1892"...then read it again. Seriously fucked up.
我以为标题写的是“1892年”……结果又读了一遍。简直离谱得过分。
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Maybe I'm just really emotional in the morning, but this really fucked me up... those poor little guys, I hope they grew up and got the fuck out of there somehow..
As a History teacher I'm constantly talking about how the world has changed, or that rather, it is attempting to change. The fact that this was less than 40 years ago really indicates how quickly things can regress.
There is a great BBC Documentary (Mental: A History of the Madhouse) outlining how very bad we have dealt with mental illness as a society in the past. Highly would recommend watching.