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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 COMFORTS- HUGE DAYROOMS-PLAIN BEDROOMS NO RIGHT TO REFUSE MEDICATION- OR ANY TYPE OF MEDICAL TREATMENT o AT 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 CARE OF DISABLED = OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND FOR MANY YEARS INVENTION OF ANTI-PSYCOTICS CHANGED MENTAL HEALTH STATE INSITUTIONS – RELEASED MENTALLY ILL KEPT DISABLED- UNTILL GOV ALLOWED PRIVITE COMPANYS TO STEP IN ONLY RECENTLY- BIG PUSH IN LATE 1980S AS MANY HOSPITALS WERE FORCED TO CLOSE B/C OF REPORTS OF ABUSE EX- STATE DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER IN FORTWAYNE NOT ABLE TO FIND PLACMENT FOR INDIVDUALS STILL OPEN- AFTER CHARGES OF ABUSE/NEGLECT --- MOST INDIVIDUALS WENT FROM INSITUTIONS TO SMALLER FACLITYS, NOW PUSH FOR GROUP HOMES- HOMES WHERE 6-8 CLIENTS LIVE WHAT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER HAD A FAMILY, OR LIVED A NORMAL LIFE HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM ROUTINES THAT WERE THE SAME FOR MANY YEARS. HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY EVEN LIKE OR DISLIKE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO ACT IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE FEARS OF ABUSE, OR DON’T RECOGNIZE IT SIDE EFFECTS OF MEDICATION CAUSE INVOLENTARY MUSCLE STILL STORONG STIGMA OF MENTAL RETARDATION HAVE NO FAMILY- SOCIAL TIES- OR PEOPLE TO REALLY DEPEND ON STAFF THAT WORK I N GOUP HOMES – TRY TO DEVELOP INTRESTS, HOBBIES ECT TRY TO OVERCOME BEHAVIORS LEARNED IN HOSPITAL TRY TO TEACH SOCIAL, HYGINE, AND EVERY DAY SKILLS LIKE COOKING, CLEANING, GOING TO WORK, ECT THE COMMUNITY HAS TO BECOME INVOLVED WHO HAVE BEEN IGNORED, ABUSED, AND VOLIATED WHO HAVE OVERCOME ODDS THAT OTHERS CANT IMAGINE WHO CRY, GET UPSET, GET HURT, HAVE FEELINGS, FEEL LOVE, AND COMPASSION EVEN AFTER AND WHO HAPPEN TO HAVE DISABLITYS THEY HAVE NEVER HAD ANYBODY IN THEIR LIVES THAT DIDN’T GET PAID TO BE THERE COMMUNITYS NEED TO ACCEPT AND OPEN THEIR ARMS TO THE DEVELOPMENTALY DISABLED TREAT THEM WITH THE RESPECT YOU WOULD ANY OTHER PERSON GET TO KNOW THEM- OFTEN OPEN, FRIENDLY, LIFELONG FRIENDS- WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE OUT IN COMMUNITY- DO NOT MOCK OR TEASE OR TALK TO THEM LIKE THEY ARE A CHILD MAKE THEM WELCOME- IN STORES, THE PARK, RESRAUNTS, -- SPEAK TO THEM, - NOT THE PERSON THEY ARE WITH TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO BE RESPECTFUL, ALLOW THEM TO BE INCLUDED IN ORGANIZAITONS, JOBS, EVENTS, SHOW THEM THAT THEY BELONG- AND ARE ACCEPTED- REALIZE THE DIFFICULTYS THEY ENDURE EVERY DAY REALIZE THAT DEVEOPMENTAL DISAIBLTYS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE PERSON IS INCAPABLE OF LEARNING- JUST THAT THEY MAY NEED MORE TIME, OR OFTEN--- THAT THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN TAUGHT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE – AS HUMANS—FOR EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY—WE ARE A SOCIAL FAMILY- MAKE MRDD A PART OF THAT. MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR THE DISABLED THAT ARE GROWING UP NOW- AND THEIR FAMILYS- MENTAL DISABLITY DOES NOT EXCLUDE A PERSON FROM LIFE- AND THEY RIGHTFULLY DESERVE A SOCIETY THAT ACCEPTS THEM AND ALLOWS THEM A JOB, FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND EDUCATION- WE ARE COMEING UPON A WHOLE GENERATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABLITYS WHO FINALLY HAVE ACCESSS TO THE THINGS THEY DESERVE- LIFE- LIBERTY AND THE PRESUIT OF HAPPINESS NOW I WANT TO SHOW A VIDEO – A DOCUMENTARY FROM A STATE HOSPITAL IN CALIFONIA THIS IS A LOCKED PSYCIATRIC WARD OF A LARGE HOSPITAL IN CALIFORNIA THOUGH, THESE PATIENTS ARE MOSTLY MENTALLY ILL, NOT MENTALLY DISABLED – I WANT YOU TO REALIZE WHAT STATE HOSPTIALS WERE LIKE. IN HOSPITALS LIKE THIS – MANY PEOPLE SPENT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. NOTICE THE MEDICATION – HEAVEY TRANQIZLIERS THAT KEPT THE WARD QUIET- AND OVERMEDICATED ZOMBIE PATIENTS Bibliography: no bib, sorry Word Count: 948
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