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17 Aug 2016, 1:10 am

Boy with autism locked in 'cage', NSW school being investigated


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18 Aug 2016, 7:30 am

I thought this was an old report at first, but it seems they're at it again.



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19 Aug 2016, 2:24 pm

This doesn't surprise me. :x


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19 Aug 2016, 2:41 pm

at least they don't [yet] use shock belts like an infamous institution on the American east coast.



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20 Aug 2016, 3:45 pm

auntblabby wrote:
at least they don't [yet] use shock belts like an infamous institution on the American east coast.


America has improved and reformed itself regarding how it treats the most vulnerable etc. It is nothing like how it once was. However there are and will be instances were innocent people get abused by the system and we need to stand for them.



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14 Sep 2016, 3:55 am

1950's treatment of Autistic in Australia

Autistic man shackled, naked during 'distressing' nine months at Victorian hospital

Something is very wrong there. Hopefully the press coverage will bring things there into the modern era.


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14 Sep 2016, 10:07 pm

If you don't go to school, you'll eventually be put in jail. Oh, wait.



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14 Sep 2016, 10:35 pm

a lot of schools are just serving as de facto prep schools for eventual prison. "school to prison pipeline." if one chooses the wrong parents who live in the wrong place, one's life will be nasty, brutish and short.



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15 Sep 2016, 1:28 am

BitterCoffee wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
at least they don't [yet] use shock belts like an infamous institution on the American east coast.


America has improved and reformed itself regarding how it treats the most vulnerable etc. It is nothing like how it once was. However there are and will be instances were innocent people get abused by the system and we need to stand for them.
i never see stories about adults who have autistic being saved, everyone cared when i was a lad, now nobody does



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15 Sep 2016, 11:05 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:
1950's treatment of Autistic in Australia
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Something is very wrong there. Hopefully the press coverage will bring things there into the modern era.


You're not kidding.
I know the Alfred, it's a major hospital.
This is shocking to me. 8O

I'm confused, because their is no way they would not have a restraints policy.
They're the kind of hospital that writes the policies that other smaller 2nd and 3rd tier hospitals use.

Here is the wiki entry : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alfred_Hospital