2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

Those are from late sixties early seventies-we called them banana seat bikes-cool if groovy colors like purple or bright green.

Just Sad!!!

I guess others are not as reserved as you and I are.

Yer telling me!

I don't even like using the toilets at work! Either there is someone already in there when I go in (there's four cubicles) or if I'm the only one in there, the next person to come in will almost always use the cubicle next to mine! Why!!!

Let me pee in peace people!

Talking about it is nothing like actually being out there where anyone can hear your bodily functions. Don't you hate those public "areas", BritChick? Not only can anyone hear you, but how unsanitary! it's positively icky.

In that case, I certainly won't be going no boot camp! I'm prudish about anyone even hearing me peeing, let alone watching!

Yet not too prudish to talk about it! :-D

Aw, {Twug}

:-)

Enter one Knight in Shining Armor. Add one soap box. Working with the MR/MH population is difficult. Patience is a must, as well as the need to be alert in some cases. AS with ANY population, you may have to deal with violence, threats upon your person, and verbal and physical abuse. Being handicapped should not make you a pariah; there is violence in both worlds. Also, not everyone who works with these folks is abusive. Where I worked, client abuse was not tolerated. Granted, things in the past used to be bad for MR/MH people, and they WERE treated poorly, but things have come a long way in the field. Normalcy is what the State screams on a continuous basis. Which is great on paper, and goes a long way in protecting clients' rights. But, I have "lived" cases where some of my people were coddled and treated like gold to the point that it was ridiculous. They wanted for nothing and were rarely held accountable for their actions (and some of these were high-functioning adults). That is not normalcy.

The point is to look at BOTH sides instead of wallowing in pity or excusing it all.

Hmm Lynne usually makes very good points but I can see Vivekas view on this aswell.I don't think either is right or wrong.

Not to be too critical, but lynns writing reminds me of the nurses in that damn mental hospital I was in. Always had a perfect, beurocratic, and PC answer to everything. Sure, it is easy to look at everything from a cold and clinical standpoint, but lets try to think about things from the perspective of the patients, afterall, THEY are the ones who really matter in these situations, not the staff, or the taxpayers, but the patients, who have no say in their wellbeing or lives while being inplaced in these institutions. This is a very harrowing and disturbing image.

Ahhh, to bathe in dirt, dust, and paint chips... even that couldn't wash away the horrors commited within this breathing mechanism of torture we call an instution.

Prison cell, bedroom, all the same thing in the eyes of the state.

The lack of privacy, how hauntingly reminiscent of my stay in a VA state adolescents ward....

looks like boot camp set up.the theory being you gotta get used to crapping under any conditions and privaxy is the first to go.