2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

If the floor tiles were to be whiter, and the hall wider, I would swear this was the middle school I went to. Odd.

The wall tiling is exactly the same. Only in the older part of the school though. Man this pic brought back some memories for me. I could almost see lockers lined up on the right side, and classrooms on the left.

People need to remember, it wasn't only disabilities or abuse that caused death, there was also TB, polio, german measels, measels, etc. most of this diseases have been all but eradicated in our country now, but were very prevalent back then. Some disabled folks also have natrally lower immune system responses too.

From the build of the object (lightweight, no excess webbing) it may well have been a shower chair (easier to perform peri-care as well).

I have to say, although the posts are old, I do applaud many of the post(ers). As a parent of a developmentally disabled child, and an employee of a MR/DD group home, I have to agree with many of the posts. However, do not think that the government or social security administration of any other governmental/charitable organization helps all families with physically disabled children...my son is now 15 years old, almost as tall as I am 5'5", over 120 pounds, and can be as stiff as a board when I lift him (yes, I did say lift him / no hoyer or sara lifts in my house, unfortunately they cost $$$), because even in this day and age, families are expected to be self-reliant. All the touchy-feely groups out there who claim to help, aren't any help at all unless you drug the he** out of your kid (mental issues?), or you are already on welfare. For working families with no desire to live off the dole, even a little help means a huge difference. I'm right now just trying to get my insurance company to pay for an upgraded seating system for my son's wheelchair (he's been too large for it for over 2 years now, and he's still growing). When these institutions were closed down, the funding they received was supposed to be ear-marked for families caring for their loved-ones rather than dumping them in a home, school, etc ( gee-the government isn't using the money for what they claimed it was for? Boy, that has never happened before!). Imagine....filling out paperwork for a grant, begging for money which other people are also begging for....the treatment of the disabled and their families by society still isn't what it should be. Don't judge the former resident's families too harshly, they did only what they could at the time (no grant money then).

this has silent hill written all over it

if i drink more beer maybe i can go down to the basements stair

This place was once so beautiful and in many ways it still is. The children here needed to feel loved and safe. The staff gave them that.

I can't find the picture you guys are talking about.

older xray macine tranformers contain PCBs

wow

Post the pic of the adult crib and you get everyone's life story.

I like this shot. It's rather peaceful and calming. as for what is at the end of the hall, my guess woul be either a door or a wall... J/K. :G>

You are going to find, no matter where you go, state school, mental hospital, out in the real world, that there are kind and caring people and then there are just mean A-holes that would be mean no matter what. It's just hat t s... Life. It isn't always fair or pretty or nice ut you deal...

Oooh! Come to think of it. We were admonished about disposing of our sanatary items at the blind school. We could NOT NOT NOT flush items down the toilet, nor could we just toss them away in the trash. We had to wrap up the used item in toilet paper before putting it in the trash. I guess so the people who took out the trash would have a layer of protection between them and our used items. That has been so engrained into my personal toilet habbits that I just sort of thought everyone did this, wrapping up their used item in toilet paper and then putting it in the trash. It wasn't until my feeancee remarked about it one day that I discovered lots of people don't dispose of those items as I do. And that my method of disposal is well? strange.

Hi regarding this calling people clients and brother and sister,
On every single disasterous spin I took on the ever revolving door at our state run rehab center for adult blind I and my fellow students, my word for us, not theirs (theirs meaning the folks running the center) Has been, and I guess will always be, unless the word "client" somehow becomes not P.C. "client.


I've always found this to be just a bit odd, although I suppose "client" is far better than inmate or being reduced to some nameless faceless case number.. to be filed away in some poor overworked VR counsler's caseload

Client, I guess is also used so that we, those who seak help from Voc Rehab in whatever form be it training, job placement, obtaining assistive technology so we can go to work, school or just lead as best a life as we are able to feel a part of the whole VR team. There was a time, not too long ago when we were told not asked or listened to what was to become of our lives. After all, we surely couldn't have the slightest idea what was in our best interest, being blind or disabled and all. We needed somebody, most times a non-disabled person to do our thinking for us... I'm being a bit sarcastic, but it's true, in the past if you had some sort of disability nobody wanted to take you seriously to listen to you. I guess this is because the people in charge, the non-disabled ones at any rate Had no idea what they'd do if they had whatever disability you had. They wouldn't know how to cope, some, not all of them. So they couldn't see how you would cope.

Like I said not everyone is/was like this, but some folks are. But over the past several years, we've been asked to step out of our sheltered workshops and back rooms and to have a voice in our future. So they did away with inmate, although, VR being as under-staffed and overloaded with people needing help as it is I'm not so sure about the being a nameless faceless case number. LOL just kidding...

Honestly I don't care what you call me as long as you can give me the help I'm seaking and to do this with dignity

As for this brother/sister thing. I hope I can write this and not muck it up. I think they did this to foster a "family" feel. I mean here are all these kids away from their own families so in a way the school/hospital was their family. It's rather odd and stilted but nothing new. For example at my time at the state school for the blind w e had dorm mothers and dorm dads, I guess that's what the guys called their overseers. We had to address all dorm staff by Miss. or Mr. whatever their first name was. And they just called us by our first names. Of corse in school we had to call our teachers Mr. or Mrs. last name. At the private adjustment center for adult blind in Colorado I attended a few years ago and at the school I attend to receive my guide dogs, we drop the Mr. and Mrs. so n so and just call eachother, staff, students and or trainers, in the case of guide dog school, by our first names. I like this because it is more relaxed andfriendly and I don't feel so much like a thing something is being done to, rather I feel like a person who is doing and choosing for herself just the same as anyone.