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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 86268" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>Thanks for posting this Star. It is so touching. It is important to put a real face on all of the people who were institutionalized. All of our large state mental institutions closed here 10 years ago. I had a client who came from one to a community "foster" placement. She was 60. Her mother died when she was young, she came from a rural community and she was mildly retarded. That's it, she had no real mental impairment. Her family did not know what to do with her after her mother died and they commited her to a psychiatric hospital.(Fortunately that would never happen today). She never went to school and was completely and totally institutionalized. She had no clue of how to take care of herself. But, she was a delightful person with a lovely personality. So lovely, that she met a man who in her new community who took quite a liking to her. He was also mildly retarded, but they wanted to set up housekeeping together. They got married and with help from the "foster mother" worked to develop skills to live on their own. How sad that she had to wait until she was 60 to have a "normal" life!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 86268, member: 3704"] Thanks for posting this Star. It is so touching. It is important to put a real face on all of the people who were institutionalized. All of our large state mental institutions closed here 10 years ago. I had a client who came from one to a community "foster" placement. She was 60. Her mother died when she was young, she came from a rural community and she was mildly retarded. That's it, she had no real mental impairment. Her family did not know what to do with her after her mother died and they commited her to a psychiatric hospital.(Fortunately that would never happen today). She never went to school and was completely and totally institutionalized. She had no clue of how to take care of herself. But, she was a delightful person with a lovely personality. So lovely, that she met a man who in her new community who took quite a liking to her. He was also mildly retarded, but they wanted to set up housekeeping together. They got married and with help from the "foster mother" worked to develop skills to live on their own. How sad that she had to wait until she was 60 to have a "normal" life! [/QUOTE]
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