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12:05pm July 18, 2014

madeofpatterns:

institutions can and do hurt people just by existing

I was never in one.

but a lot of adults in my life made damn sure I knew they existed

and that there were ~worse places~ I could be

Yep I’ve always told people that institutions did serious damage to my life long before I’d ever been in one.  People don’t always understand.

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  1. just-another-nerd37 reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    ^ yes. ugh so much. thank you for the last paragraph especially. also, i constantly forget that asylum is supposed to be...
  2. santorumsoakedpikachu reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  3. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from soilrockslove and added:
    The descriptions… that was me, too. Also seeing people who moved like I moved, and then seeing that they were being led...
  4. orgy-of-nerdiness reblogged this from quasi-normalcy and added:
    That’s where there’s a need to differentiate between “institutions” and “total institutions” Schools are institutions,...
  5. quasi-normalcy reblogged this from ajax-daughter-of-telamon and added:
    Even the very word “institution” has become so loaded with ominous connotations that people reflexively claim that...
  6. ajax-daughter-of-telamon reblogged this from soilrockslove
  7. soilrockslove reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yes. The way schools and institutions and prisons are set up is *very* similar.
  8. rumpelstiltskinix reblogged this from santorumsoakedpikachu
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  12. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I both agree and disagree with that. Need to sort it out. A lot of what I know about disability and consent I learned...
  13. verbose-vespertine reblogged this from just-another-nerd37 and added:
    A lot of the kids I worked with at the math and science school had the threat of some seriously fucked up institutions...
  14. missleaves reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Years of my mother threatening to put me in one had me literally going crazier than I already was; made me more tight...
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