MR/DD INDIVIDUALS PLACE IN FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY I HAVE WORKED WITH MRDD FOR 7 YEARS, SENSE I WAS 16 IN THE PAST – EARLY 1900’S *****1970s MRDD PLACED IN STATE INSTITUTIONS WHOLE SEGMENT OF POPULATION IN THE USA THAT WAS FOR THE MOST PART RAISED WITHOUT FAMILYS MOST FAMILYS THAT GAVE BIRTH TO MRDD – WERE TOLD THAT PLACEMENT IN A STATE HOSPTIAL WAS THE BEST THING THEY COULD DO TYPES OF CHILREN- MENTALLY RETARDED, BRAIN INJURY, EPILEPTIC, SPINA BIFFIDA, MENTALLY ILL, EVEN SOMETIMES CHILDREN OF UNWED MOTHERS, POOR CHILDREN, ORPHANS, ESP IMMIGRANTS MENTAL ILLNESS AND DISABLITYS BLAIMED ON MORAL CAUSES- OTHER PREVAILING THEORIES THOUGHT THAT SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOMS WERE CAUSING INSANITY- SEVERELY LIMITING FREEDOM OUTSIDE THE ASYLUM WOULD CURE PATIENTS. BELIEVED MENTALLY ILL AND DISABLED COULD BE COAXED INTO NORMAL ADULT HOOD THOUGH PUNISHMENT, CONFINEMENT AND MORAL TRAINING FAMILYS THAT DID RAISE MRDD AT HOME, FACED NO RESOURCES IN COMMUNITY TO HELP THEM. COMMUNITY NOT ACCEPTING OF MRDD – VERY STRONG STIGMAS FOR DISABLED AND THEIR FAMILYS. STATE INSTITUTIONS OR MENTAL HOSPITALS HOUSED 1000’S OF PATIENTS- SCIZOPHRENICS, DISABLED, CHILDEN, ADULTS IMAGINE GROWING UP – FROM A INFANT MOST TIMES IN A ENVIORMENT WHERE THERE WERE- NO CHOICE IN YOUR ROOM- CLOTHES- WHAT TIME TO EAT, DRESS, GET UP, BATH, WORK,SLEEP, NO PRIVACY- OFTEN GROUP SHOWERS- TOLIETS- NO OR LITTLE EDUCATION OR TRAINING NO COMFORTS- HUGE DAYROOMS-PLAIN BEDROOMS NO RIGHT TO REFUSE MEDICATION- OR ANY TYPE OF MEDICAL TREATMENT oAT FIRST DONE WITH A ICEPICK – INSERTED THOUGH EYE SOCKET- TO DESTROY FRONTAL LOBE UNDER GENERAL ANISTETIC NO RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM ABUSE, OR NEGLECT NO RIGHT TO HAVE ACCESS TO COMMUNITY NO RIGHT TO CHOSE WHERE YOU LIVED, OR WHERE YOU WERE SENT NO RIGHT TO DATE, HAVE FAMILY, CARE OF DISABLED = OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND FOR MANY YEARS INVENTION OF ANTI-PSYCOTICS CHANGED MENTA...
