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11:43pm October 15, 2013
raisel-the-riveter asked: ok the part where the narration is briefly in Bjurman's perspective and he thinks "she really is ret*rded" is just fucking chilling. I thought his perception of her as ID did come across in the US movie though, when he says "this is how normal people get along with each other"?? terrifying. I don't know if most viewers catch it though

nicocoer:

I am more of a swedish movie person… but yeah, I watched and I thought it came across as something that would be said to any of the kids I was in MH partial with. They treat you like you grew up wild in the woods when you are considered to have a serious mental illness as a juvenile some times, like if only someone had taught you xyz coping skill or social skill then you wouldn’t be so crazy… that you could pass a little better. Or at least for those of us who had behaviors that got us kicked out of classrooms. Of course they were full of shit, because those of us that got those sorts of attentions were more likely to have been taught a ton of skills that never worked for the realities of our lives, the same middle class/non-abusive home/abled coping and social skills again and again by well meaning nurses and interns who don’t understand the uselessness of their words for half the people under their “care.” 

… I might have mixed feelings about been a child in the MH service system. And ya know, my senior year of high school they thought I’d be a poster child- from recs to residential/institutional placement to honors classes, of course they would. Just. FEELS. 

Oh geez yes. Also people outside the world of crazy kids, or in denial about it, or sometimes the “good kids” from it, totally do not get what goes on or what you have to do to survive.