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djgraymarauders4evr:
thatdutchgirlsworld:
breelandwalker:
marauders4evr:
I want to become a tour guide of one of those haunted asylum tours. I’d sort of hunch over in my wheelchair, wrapped in a cloak, greeting the people. They’ll be nudging each other, waiting to hear about the crazies.
I’ll beckon them with a single finger, wheeling backwards, letting the darkness consume me. They’ll follow, inch by inch, already trembling with adrenaline.
We’ll enter the asylum. It will be dark. Gloomy.
“Take your seats,” I say.
They’re confused but comply, feeling in the dark, finally reaching a table. They can’t wait. They have their cameras prepared.
Somebody asks if you can still hear the patients’ screams in the corridors.
“Well,” I say, “you can hear someone’s screams.”
Without warning, the door crashes shut. We hear a lock. People start screaming. Panicking. At that moment, the lights come on. We’re sitting in a lecture hall. I whisk off my cloak to reveal a perfectly tailored suit.
“All right, folks,” I say. “Let’s talk about how every single horrifying event that happened in asylums was a direct result of the doctors and nurses committing medical malpractice rather than the patients themselves, shall we? We’ll start with Rosemary Kennedy. Someone get the lights. I have a PowerPoint.”
I would attend this lecture several times in a row just to watch the audience flinch.
I didn’t think of the history of these tours. I mean people used to pay to walk through Bethlhem, famously deemed Bedlam, where the mentally ill were often chained to the walls and were significantly neglected. (x) The idea that these places now exist for us to visit and roam to hear or see the ghosts of the mentally ill is extremely sick.
If you include:
~The history of lobotomies in the US in the 1930′s (x)
~The terrifying history of electroconvulsive therapy and the complete disregard for safety measures in the UK once they were implemented(x)
~The history of forced imprisonment of women in asylums (x)(x)
~The history of forced imprisonment due to dissenting political views(x)
~Compulsory Sterilization (x)
~Then there’s just the general horrifying history of psychiatry and asylums.(x)
Honestly it’s sickening. I would 100% rather have a lecture about these horrors. Or at least a museum like environment where all of the atrocities committed against the mentally ill are brought to the forefront.
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thatdutchgirlsworld:
breelandwalker:
marauders4evr:
I want to become a tour guide of one of those haunted asylum tours. I’d sort of hunch over in my wheelchair, wrapped in a cloak, greeting the people. They’ll be nudging each other, waiting to hear about the crazies.
I’ll beckon them with a single finger, wheeling backwards, letting the darkness consume me. They’ll follow, inch by inch, already trembling with adrenaline.
We’ll enter the asylum. It will be dark. Gloomy.
“Take your seats,” I say.
They’re confused but comply, feeling in the dark, finally reaching a table. They can’t wait. They have their cameras prepared.
Somebody asks if you can still hear the patients’ screams in the corridors.
“Well,” I say, “you can hear someone’s screams.”
Without warning, the door crashes shut. We hear a lock. People start screaming. Panicking. At that moment, the lights come on. We’re sitting in a lecture hall. I whisk off my cloak to reveal a perfectly tailored suit.
“All right, folks,” I say. “Let’s talk about how every single horrifying event that happened in asylums was a direct result of the doctors and nurses committing medical malpractice rather than the patients themselves, shall we? We’ll start with Rosemary Kennedy. Someone get the lights. I have a PowerPoint.”
I would attend this lecture several times in a row just to watch the audience flinch.
I didn’t think of the history of these tours. I mean people used to pay to walk through Bethlhem, famously deemed Bedlam, where the mentally ill were often chained to the walls and were significantly neglected. (x) The idea that these places now exist for us to visit and roam to hear or see the ghosts of the mentally ill is extremely sick.
If you include:
~The history of lobotomies in the US in the 1930′s (x)
~The terrifying history of electroconvulsive therapy and the complete disregard for safety measures in the UK once they were implemented(x)
~The history of forced imprisonment of women in asylums (x)(x)
~The history of forced imprisonment due to dissenting political views(x)
~Compulsory Sterilization (x)
~Then there’s just the general horrifying history of psychiatry and asylums.(x)
Honestly it’s sickening. I would 100% rather have a lecture about these horrors. Or at least a museum like environment where all of the atrocities committed against the mentally ill are brought to the forefront.
Behold!
My assistant!
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