Death never appealed to me however … I wanted revenge.
If you wanted to die, you had every opportunity. To be confined in an institution for the profoundly retarded just removes all hope. You were totally outside the boundaries that delineated the human race. You knew you had failed to measure up to the standard expected of babies. If you were distorted, disfigured, or disturbed, the world would not have to see or acknowledge you. Very young children were taken into permanent care, regardless of their intelligence. Over a track through cots lined up like prison cells in a sterile white hospital ward, Annie O'Farrell sets the scene with a voice over: (Note: this listing and synopsis contains spoilers).īrentwood hospital, State Health Commission, Melbourne in the late 1970s.
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