Comments by "pugetwitch" (@Pugetwitch) on "Inside Pennhurst Asylum: Understanding Disabilities Through The Decades | Only Human" video.
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That's nice but it doesn't mean that people who are unable to take care of individuals with severe disabilities should be demonized because they have sought outside resources. My sister has schizophrenia and she has been jailed for assault multiple times, it's not fair to put the burden on my father who was already disabled at the time she got diagnosed, or on my mom, who isn't even my half sister's biological mother. My half sister's mom has a mental illness which wasn't diagnosed until she was in her late twenties, which was shortly after her and my father became divorced. she became abusive shortly after they got married and moved in together, so he divorced her after counseling didn't help things between them. Then, a few years later after they divorced, he found out his ex wife was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. by then he had already married my mom and had 2 kids. When I was almost 40 I was diagnosed with autism and I'm pretty sure that's what my dad's issue is, I shouldn't say issue cuz he's super smart, he's just always had special interest in lots of other signs of autism that I was unaware of until after I was diagnosed.😂 One of my good friends has an autistic son, she decided to raise him over in America. He was born in Japan, and she told me that they wanted to put him in a home. Luckily she's able and more than willing of course to do that, but I think of one of my good friends that I grew up with. She got pregnant at age 14 by an adult man. The baby had down syndrome, and she put him up for adoption. She's 47 now, and her son is amazing. He's a grown man! He's a fantastic man and despite having down syndrome he lives a fulfilling life and is very active in his family and community. The family adopted him was a really nice Christian family, I hate having to throw that in because I'm against organized religions as a whole, but in this case my friend was really blessed for lack of a better term, lol because her son has just had the best life. The family has a lot of money and they're a huge family that fosters a lot of kids. They actually go through with adopting most of the ones they foster, I think he's got like 12 brothers and sisters now🎉 but I just think back to the olden days when most women got pregnant very young because there was no birth control and they were treated as property, basically once you could procreate you were on the market and it's very sad to think of how many women were forced into pregnancies and had to deliver babies that didn't survive or institutionalized for one reason or another.
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