2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

...great, as if this pic was creepy enough. Now I can't stop imagining a guy hanging by his neck just out of the frame. Wonderful.

For the longest time I couldn't figure out why this shot bugged me, then I realized...no bleachers. Are they behind you?

Lynne, I used to work in a group home for people with disabilities, and I always thought the haggling over the terms was really lame. Your post shed a lot of light on that subject for me, though. I guess I never really thought of it in that way before. Thanks.

That light gives it a menacing presence!

Or would you rather just take the elevator?

If you're not gonna say it, I'm gonna say it.
"Is it safe?"
Sorry, couldn't resist!

Uh, no thanks, Kassie. That upholstry looks toootally nasty. Like barf out!

It ain't valuable anymore! Although I have a CD by an Australian guy named Ross Bolleter who uses abandoned pianos and organs. Compositions are specified for "ruined piano" and "decayed organ."
http://www.pogus.com/21021.html

I have a lot of compassion for people with cerebral palsy. Mobility we take for granted is soooo difficult for them. I recommend the movie "My Left Foot," with Daniel Day-Lewis. They used to just treat CP sufferers like they were "idiots." Christy Brown turned out to be a great artist and writer.
Anyway, hydrotherapy, like ECT, could be used therapeutically OR abusively, as it sometimes was.

While we ought to grant as much humanity to retarded citizens as we can, it does bear mentioning that people with severe retardation are often incapable of the social anxiety that would make bodily exposure humiliating.
Institutional care is depressing in its factory-like treatment of patients, but truly dysfunctional facilities could be downright barbarous. Among the iniquities Geraldo Rivera exposed at Willowbrook was that staff herded masses of patients into a room with a drain and just hosed them down. Kinda makes that tub room look like a health spa by comparison!

Yep yaggy, hats off to your mother. This stuff still happens, not only to the mentally disabled but to our parents, or other loved one in nursing homes/retirement homes ........

Max - It is called a transom or a fanlight.

im a cardiac care tech in a hospital in western washington

What time was it when time stopped?

umm....Motts.....what the hell is that thing?!