Refrigerator mothers

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This documentary is half depressing and half fascinating.

And I am so pleased we can now tell professionals to bog off and there will prob be someone to support you (although I think mothers are still blamed too much).

Thank goodness I wasn't born 30 years earlier.

Have you read Exiting Nirvana or The Siege by Clara Claiborne Parks. She had an autistic daughter in that era and it was so shocking and really just plain unbelievable that she was treated the way she was !! And yet the people who did it were revered in their day...

I've read the books by Georgie Stehli's mother - and she described it. I should read those others.